• Disappearing wireless (XP Pro)

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    #369910

    This problem has me well confused, so if anyone can shed some light, I’d be very grateful hairout
    – we have three PC at home, upgraded to XP Pro
    – decided to try out wireless (cabling the house is difficult)
    – installed the Netgear Access point on one PC, wireless PCMCIA cards on the other two (they’re laptops)
    Seemed to work, I could see the two laptops.

    Week or so later, now I can’t frown
    – recent change was I tried to set the main PC to allow others to use it to link to the Internet via the ISDN card
    Had a look at the setting (of which I have a limited understanding), and the first thing I noticed was the Client for Microsoft and File Sharing were both unchecked, so I checked them, but I get an warning that this selection will disable the Client and File sharing question
    – this is well weird, I’m selecting them yet the warning is that this will disable them

    One laptop was new, so I reinstalled and it worked, but now it’s gone again yikes
    Other thing is the Netgear driver isn’t Windows XP certified ??

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    • #583724

      Oops, should have said, by disappearing, I mean the other PC’s have disappeared from the workgroup
      – just to really confuse things, I tried linking a laptop up via a real wire to the hub and it works ???

    • #583815

      Oh blast, I’ve been doing some more digging on the net and spotted an article on this and found this
      http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/st…2832183,00.html%5B/url%5D

      Seems that Netgear is labelled “Works with Windows XP” – this is not the proper Microsoft compatability, they’ve been using a loophole to get their wireless card to work with XP.
      This loophole has since been closed by one of Microsoft’s update patches frown
      So until Netgear (and it seems other cards using the Intersil chip set) get their proper XP compatible drivers out, I’m back to using wires bummer

      • #583827

        have you looked at http://www.practicallynetworked.com[/url%5D yet? They may know more about the situtation and potential fixes.

        • #583963

          Thanks, had a look but couldn’t find anything on the Netgear and Windows XP drivers
          – got a response the Netgear tech. support suggesting
          Resolution:
          Please try the steps below:
          Please try selecting the ipx/spx first and then select client for MS networks or file and print sharing.
          You may also find some winXP related information at wown.com

          I’ll give this a go tonight when I get home

          • #589267

            This seems to have worked, part of the problems were down to one of the ports in my hub having an intermittent fault frown
            I have ipx/spx and tcp/ip protocol installed, seems the Client for Microsoft and File Sharing for Microsoft won’t work with the Netgear TCP/IP, but they work fine with ipx, so this gives me the workgroup capability in the home network joy
            Just to confuse me though, I can still ping each machine, either wired or wireless, and the laptops can reach the Internet via the PC with the ISDN modem installed confused

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