Hi,
I have a question. I set up a wireless router (Linksys) on a DSL
connection at someone else's home. (She works for IBM in management in
Fishkill and Pooughkeesie). She has a Thinkpad T21 with Lotus Notes,
AT&T dialer, Windows 2000 Pro, etc.
The wireless router works fine. I brought my own TP laptop to her
house
and it automatically picked up the signal and I was able to make a
wireless connection with no problem.
But with her computer there is a big problem. I configured her
computer
with the same seetings as mine ( to use DHCP and DNS automatically)
and even swapped my wireless card for hers and still nothing. I cannot
get a wireless connection on her TP.
However, when she plugs an Ethernet cable from one of the ports on
the router to the laptop, she can get connectivity. She does not want
to use the cable, but would prefer the wireless card.
She uses the AT&T Global Dialer to connect to IBM. She uses the
Ethernet cable and she can access the w3.ibm.com internal Web site
here.
Like I said my laptop and her laptop had the exact some wireless
configuration settings (minus the Global Dialer) to make a connection
and mine worked and hers did not.
Even with my "good" Ethernet card in her computer, it did not work. I
was wondering whether the AT&T global dialer or something else has to
be specially configured for the wireless card to work.
Any thoughts about this? What am I missing here.
David
