Am away for the weekend and don't have this laptop with me. It's a newly
formatted, older Compaq, and does not have any PCMCIA cards in it. However,
I'll take a look at the table you suggested to see if there is something
there somehow. This hookup with my Linksys adapter is the first attempt to
get it onto wireless internet.

"James Egan" wrote:


On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:46:02 -0700, Wendy
wrote:

I'm using the sw which came with Linksys G adapter... not anything which is
part of W98SE. And I set it for WEP. Never was asked about encryption nor
MAC filters, so I don't think those are in place. I have gone back through
the profile for wireless on that laptop via the Linksys sw and can't see
anything "odd", but I'm not a network guru, either. Anything else I can
look at? I use this same adapter with my own laptop, but it runs XP
Home........... so that's different.


If you have connected the wireless bit okay (ie. same wep passphrase
on the router and laptop, and the router is configured to allow
connections from the mac address of the laptop) then you should be
able to ping the ip address of the router from the laptop. Does that
work? If so, the problem isn't with the wireless settings.

What does the routing table of the laptop say? That might shed some
light.
ie from a command prompt type "route print c:\temp.txt" and post the
contents of temp.txt here.

Like the other poster said, if there is another network card on this
machine, that could cause problems and it needs to be disabled.


Jim.