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Adding Wireless LAN - conflict with built-in network?
Here's my situation:
I have a IBM Thinkpad T20 with built-in network. It works fine on the network using TCPIP protocol using the built-in network adaptor. It's IP address is fixed (as all on my network have been). I've added a 3com 3CRWE154G72 PCMCIA Wireless LAN adaptor using the latest driver on the 3com website. I can only access the WLAN network if I disable the internal network adaptor in control panel. I did have Netbuei also installed and could access some computers (those also with Netbeui) over the WLAN with the built-in network enabled. The WLAN card is getting an IP address from the DHCP server in my ADSL modem, which also acts as the networks gateway. Is there a way that Win 98 can use multiple network adaptors with TCPIP (only one will be active at a time - either the wireless or without the wireless card fitted a wired connection) and not have to have the adaptor not wanted disabled in control panel? -- Peter Crighton Email To: peter (at) p-cright.demon.co.uk |
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Hi Peter,
I am using the same card but talking to a 3com access point instead of an ADSL access point. When I first installed the card, I already had a 3com 3C589E 10Mb network card installed. 'ROUTE PRINT' in a DOS window suggested that the routing was ok for both but they had the same metric. However in practice, the 3c589E always seemed to be the preferred route so the wireless card never got any traffic. Unfortunately, the network setup tools are fairly dumb in this respect and don't seem to have been designed for more than one network card. I have recently re-installed Win98 and am now just using the wireless card and this seems to work. There is another serious problem but I have not yet managed to pin it on the wireless card, it is this: Win98 seems to have short periods (2 to 5 seconds) in which the clock stops, the mouse and keyboard stop responding and disk activity stops, this occurs at intervals of between 20 secs and several minutes. It is as though the interrupts get turned off for a few seconds and then back on again. I never saw these symptoms with the old installation and the 3c589E card. I probably have not been much help, but I would be interested to hear of your experiences with the 3com wireless card. "Peter Crighton" wrote: Here's my situation: I have a IBM Thinkpad T20 with built-in network. It works fine on the network using TCPIP protocol using the built-in network adaptor. It's IP address is fixed (as all on my network have been). I've added a 3com 3CRWE154G72 PCMCIA Wireless LAN adaptor using the latest driver on the 3com website. I can only access the WLAN network if I disable the internal network adaptor in control panel. I did have Netbuei also installed and could access some computers (those also with Netbeui) over the WLAN with the built-in network enabled. The WLAN card is getting an IP address from the DHCP server in my ADSL modem, which also acts as the networks gateway. Is there a way that Win 98 can use multiple network adaptors with TCPIP (only one will be active at a time - either the wireless or without the wireless card fitted a wired connection) and not have to have the adaptor not wanted disabled in control panel? -- Peter Crighton Email To: peter (at) p-cright.demon.co.uk |
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Adding Wireless LAN - conflict with built-in network?
Hi Peter,
I am using the same card but talking to a 3com access point instead of an ADSL access point. When I first installed the card, I already had a 3com 3C589E 10Mb network card installed. 'ROUTE PRINT' in a DOS window suggested that the routing was ok for both but they had the same metric. However in practice, the 3c589E always seemed to be the preferred route so the wireless card never got any traffic. Unfortunately, the network setup tools are fairly dumb in this respect and don't seem to have been designed for more than one network card. I have recently re-installed Win98 and am now just using the wireless card and this seems to work. There is another serious problem but I have not yet managed to pin it on the wireless card, it is this: Win98 seems to have short periods (2 to 5 seconds) in which the clock stops, the mouse and keyboard stop responding and disk activity stops, this occurs at intervals of between 20 secs and several minutes. It is as though the interrupts get turned off for a few seconds and then back on again. I never saw these symptoms with the old installation and the 3c589E card. I probably have not been much help, but I would be interested to hear of your experiences with the 3com wireless card. "Peter Crighton" wrote: Here's my situation: I have a IBM Thinkpad T20 with built-in network. It works fine on the network using TCPIP protocol using the built-in network adaptor. It's IP address is fixed (as all on my network have been). I've added a 3com 3CRWE154G72 PCMCIA Wireless LAN adaptor using the latest driver on the 3com website. I can only access the WLAN network if I disable the internal network adaptor in control panel. I did have Netbuei also installed and could access some computers (those also with Netbeui) over the WLAN with the built-in network enabled. The WLAN card is getting an IP address from the DHCP server in my ADSL modem, which also acts as the networks gateway. Is there a way that Win 98 can use multiple network adaptors with TCPIP (only one will be active at a time - either the wireless or without the wireless card fitted a wired connection) and not have to have the adaptor not wanted disabled in control panel? -- Peter Crighton Email To: peter (at) p-cright.demon.co.uk |
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