Help With My Wifi Connection

[spray]

Hi guys,

this morning i had my new laptop and usb 802.11b access thingy delivered

i've spent a good hour or two trying to get the laptop and pc networked together via wifi, but have been failing.

i've followed a number of internet instructions on setting up an ad hoc network and although both the laptop and pc report excellent connections, i can't access the internet via the laptop or see any files or anything.

I've turned on ICS as instructed in a number of tutorials and have done everything that this website says:

Tutorial

But i'm now at my wits end!

Please help guys, much appreciated!

 

[thingley]

Can your computers PING each other?

If your Wifi software is telling you you have a connection but you can't PING the other computer then this usually points to network protocol that is not working (try reinstalling TCP/IP from the windows disk).

Make sure both computers have an IP address (don't let windows choose one of its own - there are tutorials on this somewhere)go to an MS Dos prompt and type:

PING followed by the IP address of your computer - if your computer can't get a reply from its own IP address then you really have problems!
Then try pinging the other machines IP address.

I spent bloody ages trying to network two computers with Wifi and was having similar problems - then my girlfriend came home from work and said ' I installed a new firewall on my computer - that won't affect it will it?!'

 

[spray]

right, i've assigned the host with the internet connection 192.168.0.1
and my laptop 192.168.0.3

each can ping each other

i've got both using the wireless network connection as high-speed lans, not network bridged.

still i cannot access files or get on the net!

 

[Bohica]

Assuming ICS is set-up correctly - and assuming you're not using a router - it does sound like an IP issue to me.

You can find out what address your machine is using my going to the command prompt and entering: ipconfig /all.

Thingley has it spot on - you'll need to manually set the IP address of the client computer and the host.

If you're unsure of what to use, try manually entering an address such as 192.198.0.x where x is a number not currently in use by any of your network devices or the host PC.

To access the net wirelessly, you'll may also need to manually enter the DNS addresses on the laptop. To find those, connect to the 'net with the host and use ipconfig /all again.

Hope that helps.

 

[spray]

nope, still nothing.

cheers for the help guys.

leaving aside internet sharing, any idea how to do file sharing?

tah

 

[Inopia]

Do you really think a gp32 forum is the right place to ask these questions ?

 

[barnesy]

Do you really think a gp32 forum is the right place to ask these questions ?

I was thinking that too. But then it's nice to see there are still helpful answers as well!

 

[spray]

its the i need help forum...

if a mod wants to close it feel free, but theres lot of technically minded people here who could help me out!

 

[barnesy]

It should maybe have been put in the offtopic forum, that's all. I wouldn't worry about it though - I guess a mod will move the thread if they're bothered by it.

And I don't know much about wifi I'm afraid - my only wifi capable machine is my Mac Powerbook, so I didn't have to do anything to get it to work!

 

[spray]

[/me] bangs head againt annoyingly technical windows machine [me]

 

[thingley]

What directories do you have marked as shared?

Are you sharing a massive directory, a whole hard drive or is it just a documents folder?

I know it sounds stupid but try right clicking on a folder on one of the machines and selecting to share it then unshare it and back again a few times - sometimes this has worked for me in the past.

 

[Magellan]

What OS are you using? Also, make sure both computers are in the same subnet mask and try mapping the shared drive. If you are using a computer with Win 98, and your other one is Win XP, you need to install netbui on the Win XP machine for it to recognize the Win 98 protocols. For that see here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;301041

 

[spray]

done!

after a nice half hour chat with a guy in new dehli, we discovered the problem was my god damn firewall!

thank you so much for all the help guys!

peace out!

 

[thingley]

LOL!

Thats brilliant!

Can I just say that I spent 5 hours of my life trying to get wifi to work before my girlfriend came home and told me she'd put a new firewall on her computer (I hadn't even heard of blackice at the time!).

So you're not the first!

Glad it's working now!

 

[spray]

mines black ice too!

they should put a big warning at the top of all ad hoc sites:

TURN OFF THE GOD DAMN FIREWALL MOFOS!

la la la, surfing gp32x from my bedroom :lol:

 

[Magellan]

If you want to kill a network, install a software firewall. I don't allow them on our corporate network.

 

[Bohica]

Hell - the Firewall thing didn't even occur to me

You need to install a VNC server now to use your desktop remotely - I've just done that with one of my PDAs. It's kind of cool, and a little pointless, having your windows desktop on such a small screen.

 

[Axeman]

Hehe - I wish I'd been around earlier. Firewall was going to be the first thing I was going to suggest as I was trawling through the thread.

Ah well

 

[Axeman]

If you want to kill a network, install a software firewall. I don't allow them on our corporate network.

Only if you dont set it up properly...! We use a Cisco Pix firewall, so sowftare firewalls are small fry anyhows

 

[Magellan]

Good point, we are using a Cisco Pix here as well. But some of our salesreps installed firewalls on their laptops and screwed up FTP transfers, etc.