View Single Post
  #80   Report Post  
Posted to uk.d-i-y
John Rumm John Rumm is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 25,191
Default Netbook, back again

On 10/07/2019 03:37, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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 resolvedĀ* 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 contributionsĀ* 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.

so why was it issuing a wep error message?

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.


router has some special magic for its mac addr?


None that I could see - all MAC related filtering and access control
options are not configured.


--
Cheers,

John.

/================================================== ===============\
| Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk |
\================================================= ================/