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Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa
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I need some wireless networking help, please...
I have 4 pc's (windoze) wired through a DSL router. I want to connect my new centrino laptop (with XP) via its wireless networking capability, so I have purchased a wireless access point (wap) that connects to my regular Ethernet switch.
I am able to configure the wap box via one of the hard-wired pc's, and now obviously I have to set up the laptop to talk to the wap. I presume that I have to add a new network connection with the appropriate SSID, IP & gateway settings corresponding to the new wap box''s settings? However, nothing that I try seems to work, the laptop shows no wireless networks that I can connect to. I am sitting 2 feet from the wap box. WEP is disabled.
How close or far apart should the wap box's IP & gateway addresses be from my regular machines' settings for the DSL router? What am I doing wrong here?
Networking gurus, please help!
LeRoux
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