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JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next. Nancy Distinguished. Apr 9, 67 0 18, 0. Archived from groups: microsoft. Hello everybody, I hope somebody will be able to help me. I have 2 laptops at home that I want to use wireless. To do that, I recently bought and installed a LinkSys Access point.
Since the first laptop uses Windows XP, I had no problem to make it work wireless. Instantly the computer has detected the wireless connection. It is with the other computer that I have problem.
The second computer does not use XP but Windows professional with a Centrino processor by the way, I cannot uninstall Windows and replace it by XP, I have to keep Windows I have read that Windows , even if I have a Centrino processor, is not made to automatically work wireless. Can someone tell me, what I need to do or to install in order to make my second laptop work wireless and detect the wireless connection around.
Thanks a lot!! Guest Guest. I am having an identical problem. Can anyone help us? Hey Nancy if you get this solved can you email me how you did it? Thanks Derek.
But you have to use a 3rd party wireless configuration client since windows does have an inbulit one like win XP. The clent utility that you have to install depends on the wireless card installed in the computer.
If you can let me know the make of the wireless card installed in your computer then I can exactly let you know about the utility that you have to download. Try installing one of them in your computer and check if it works. Also you need to enable a wireless zero configuration service in windows before installating the utility.
Then in the window that opens, please loacte the wireless zero configuration uitlity, double click it and then change the startup type to automatic and also start the service.
Even with the constraint of an unfriendly building, once installed, the ORiNOCO equipment was able to see the access point from various distances. The farthest point before the signal was reduced significantly was approximately feet. The signal depreciated even more until it finally died at about feet. When the quality was still in the acceptable range, network traffic stayed close to 11 Mbps, but when the laptop got more than feet away from the access point, it dropped to around 5 Mbps.
While the equipment performed well once it was installed, getting to that point took some work. Much of our aggravation stemmed from a lack of experience with this hardware and software. To avoid this during your installation, make sure you have the most up-to-date drivers for your systems.
We ended up with three or four different install CD-ROMs and while they seem to be updated on a regular basis, if the date is older than six months, it may be worth a trip to the ORiNOCO Web site to download the updates. One other general oddity that needs mentioning is that we were never able to get the Access Point to access our test network through a 3Com hub. It would work fine when directly plugged into the test network, but not being able to use the hub complicated our setup and implementation.
If you selected Specify a location , the wizard queries you for the location of the driver files. Enter the path for the folder where you extracted the files and click OK. Note: This same query appears if you selected Floppy disk drives or CD-ROM drives but did not insert the disk into the appropriate drive before you clicked Next. Insert the appropriate disk and click OK to continue. When the wizard finds the installation files and displays the client adapter driver, click Next to copy the required files.
When you receive a message that indicates that Windows has finished the installation, click Finish. In the Device Manager window, double-click Network Adapters.
In the Properties window, select the Advanced tab. Select Client Name from the Property column on the left, then type your unique client name in the Value field. The client name montecito is shown here for demonstration purposes only. You may need to contact your network administrator to determine the correct client name to enter. The default SSID tsunami is shown here for demonstration purposes only.
You may need to contact your network administrator to determine the correct SSID to enter. Click OK to close the Properties window. If your computer does not automatically obtain an IP address from a DHCP server check this with your network administrator , follow these steps. Select Use the following IP address and enter the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway address of your computer. This information can be obtained from your system administrator. Click OK. If you use ACU version 5.
If you downloaded the utilities, extract the files from the downloaded package into a temporary folder. In the Authentication Method window, select the server-based authentication method preferred for wireless network access in your location and click Next.
If you select the default value, None , server-based authentication is not enabled for your client adapter. After the client utilities install, you can elect not to implement any security features, or you can activate some level of security by using WEP keys. EAP is not available in all versions or for all operating systems.
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