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Windows ME and Wireless Networking - Failure to Connect
Your link to the kb article won't open here Robin, hangs at about 95%. I'm
pleased to see that Mike's already pinged Steve Winograd - who sometimes looks in at this News Group. I was expecting that he might have spotted your problem. However, I found the following (a few years old) which might be of interest - and wondered if Robbain might have been you? http://forum.caithness.org/archive/i...p/t-15902.html Mart "Robin CB" wrote in message ... Mart / Mike, Thanks for your help guys. I came to this forum having had a frustrating experience with the Orange Helpline with responses like " it must be trouble with your dongle / PCICMA card - you need to talk to the manufacturer". I tried the Orange e-mail support yesterday (with a summary of all of our investigations / trials) and got the following reply: quote Thank you for your email. We understand your concern. You cannot have a wireless connection with Livebox for Windows ME, however you can have a wired connection with it. You can follow the link below for more help on wired connection: http://help.orange.co.uk/sessionBegi...utionId=kb4645 If you have any further queries then please do not hesitate to get in contact with us again. Kind Regards /quote I think I will be looking for another Broadband provider when this contract expires. Thanks, Robin "Mart" wrote: Sorry it was unsuccessful Robin. As I said, I'm not really into Networking, but it had to be worth a try. Good luck Mart "Robin CB" wrote in message ... Thanks Guys, I tried Mart's suggestion and found 2 devices in the history (in addition to my main XP machine) and removed them. I'm afraid it hasn't allowed connection though. Robin "Mike M" wrote: Mart wrote: I'm not really into Networking but your problem sounds similar to a couple experiences I had with my BT HomeHub router. I found that if a working dongle or PCMCIA card on one PC was transferred to another, like yours it could see the router but wouldn't shake hands. I ended up by 'removing' or Deleting it/them from the list of (previously) detected devices under the Configuration settings of the Router (using another PC) and then let the router re-detect the dongle/PCMCIA card and set it up again. I never bothered to work out why, but did wonder if it had something to do with possibly duplicated Physical or IP address settings. All other (working) wireless/USB devices showed unique addresses. Sorry if it doesn't relate, but it did work here. Good luck. An interesting observation Mart and a very different experience from my own. My current router (SpeedTouch 585v6 v6.1.4.3 firmware [later firmware exists but does not support telnet access]) keeps a history of all attached devices, last allocated IP address (if variable) and in the case of wired hardware, the router port to which last connected. In fact this is perhaps one of its better implemented features. Let's hope this helps Robin with his problem. -- Mike Maltby |
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