"dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 10/07/2019 02:08, John Rumm wrote:
On 09/07/2019 21:56, ss wrote:
On 08/07/2019 19:56, ss wrote:
Ok will try and ring tomorrow, it did run on the ethernet yesterday.

Update:

I think I can close this off now. The netbook has been investigated in
depth by remote by J Rumm for over an hour, the situation is still not
resolved and looks like winxp is likely the issue. I am confident that
all the contributions by others were covered by John, I say confident in
as much I havent a clue to most of what he was looking at.

Anyhow I do thank you all for your contributions and a special thanks
to John for the time taken to investigate it for me.

For those still following along, I will give a quick summary of what we
know now...

So this is not a WEP/WPA issue. WinXP was correctly identifying WPA, and
actually connected without any difficulty.

What it does have is a DHCP problem after having authenticated on the
wifi. If I manually assign an IP in the correct subnet, then it works ok.
However that is not a useable solution for the use case required.

The router configuration and DHCP setup is fine (and other wifi devices
have connected and DHCPed ok)

This could be related to the issues addressed in KB953761 (DHCP options
not recognised, when sever includes option 43). However that hotfix does
not seem to have done it initially at least, although I am currently
clarifying an issue on that.




JFI, I dug out an old HP tablet PC (TC4200) last week with a broken
backlight inverter which I have no replaced so I can see the screen.

Its running Vista.

It will connect to my WiFi and I can resolve DNS and ping stuff but it
will not browse using IE. No proxy setup.

Some sites do respond, one said it supports browsers not dinosaurs!.

It is quite possible that so many sites have dropped support for really
old versions of IE so they just don't work any more.

I used to use IE on Win7 for much of my browsing until I got completely
****ed off with it falling over on starting up. I mainly used it for the
right
click stuff in the vertical scroll bar which allows you to got the top and
bottom of very deep screens like quite a few of the facebook groups
have. Never had it show any problem like he reported so its unlikely
that many sites have given up on IE as you suggest.