From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Message-ID: <4AE36B92.3060801@durrant.mine.nu>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:03:14 +1100
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To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Cannot get DHCP
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Stuart Updike wrote:
> Ed Durrant wrote:
>> Hi Stuart - "a light just went on here" - the "magic" of WiFi (and it 
>> is a magic, not a science!) is that if anything is wrong with your 
>> security settings, it does not always come up with the error message 
>> you expect. A connection but no IP address IS one possible condition 
>> that occurs.
>>
>> Given that you have tried different WiFi adapters and tried 
>> connecting to different WiFi routers, I am starting to think this may 
>> be a security setting problem.
>>
>> A lot of the older cards can only support 802.11b (not G or N) and a 
>> lot will not support WPA or WPA2 encryption only WEP.
>>
>> On your WiFi router, have you tried turning off all security and make 
>> sure that it is set to support all speeds of WiFi - i.e. 802.11b and 
>> 802.11G at least?
>>
>> I would not leave the router like this as it's an "open door" for 
>> those in range to use your network, but to test you could do this. 
>> Ideally at the end of the day you need to be running 802.11G or N and 
>> WPA2 security, but if the hardware you have wont support this, then 
>> you will need to set it to the best you can get but initially lets 
>> see if you can get things working totally without security enabled. 
>
> Hello Ed,
>
> The original internal wireless card was 802.11b. Then I tried an Intel 
> 2200 b/g card. Then I tried a PCMCIA Cisco 350 b card. At all times 
> the security was turned off on my router. I understand that it needs 
> to be tightened up when I am not testing. The router is a b router.
>
> I appreciate you suggestions!
>
> Stu Updike
> Bedford, Texas
>
>
That sounds like it's not a security issue then.  By the way do you have 
other devices working with the router wirelessly?

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

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