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More info?)
In article <20040607144347.05521.00000550@mb-m17.aol.com>,
sciencebaron@aol.com (ScienceBaron) wrote:
> I should have said that I can them to connect, but not to 'associate'. What
> does that mean anyway ?
>
> DC
Well, you are in a motherboard group, so expect us to be "out of
our league" answering networking questions.
http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/WL-138g/Multilingual_Install_100.zip
Looking at the manual, there is mention of matching the SSID,
whatever that is. It looks like your virtual LAN has a name,
and both parties have to use the same name (SSID) I'm guessing,
to connect. Notice how the Asus utility has a box called
"Association State" and the value says "connected". The
two devices also have to agree on Encryption and Authentication,
and I guess that is what enabling WEP is for, to give you some
security. Both parties should use the same key, so they can
talk to one another.
There isn't a lot to look at in that utility.
And Googling on "Association State" including the quotes, isn't
turning up anything relevant, implying it is a made up term
meaning roughly the same thing as "Connection State" ?
Is the WL-500g set up for DHCP, with room for at least one
client and a range of addresses defined ? Maybe your client
end doesn't know how to get an IP address, or the client
and router aren't agreeing on how to get the IP address
(as in enabling DHCP and using it). Private addresses suitable
for your virtual lan with WEP encryption, would be 192.168.x.x,
like say 192.168.1.2 .
Like most things on a computer, you'll just have to bash
on it some more till it works
If the WL-500g has Ethernet connectors on the back for
wired clients, I would want to test the config of the router
first via Ethernet and a wire from your client computer.
Once DHCP is set up, and your client computer can get an
IP address, and access DNS via your internet connection,
and you can surf, then and only then would I move over
to networking wirelessly. You know you can concentrate
on the wireless aspect, knowing the rest of it is in
good shape.
If you aren't using something like ICS on the client,
then each time you change network interfaces (i.e.
Ethernet or Wireless) will require a visit to your
friendly Networking Wizard, to set up one interface
as your chosen network interface. At least that is
what I would try.
Good luck,
Paul
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