Wireless Hell Part 2

Hi!
i came across this thread
http://www.windowsbbs.com/networking/42481-xp-wireless-nightmare.html
while trying to solve my stupid XP wireless (dual boot machine - Linux works fine so i know there is nothing wrong). It used to work fine then all of sudden it's bust.
exact same symptoms as the guy in the thread above, only his doesn't end in a solution - so maybe it's not fixable??!

main crux of it is can connect but cannot receive packets with a manual config, use auto config and it's the old favourite 169 ip address and no connectivity

please help me before i install the OS on my toaster where it might not be out of it's depth

thanks
James

 

What wireless adapter are you using?

What router are you using?

What encryption are you using?

 

thanks for the reply

- linksys
- atheros ar5006ex
- wep 64bit

 

Linksys is a brand not the actual adapter (model no would be good).

Cancel that, the adapter is atheros ar5006ex. What model is the router?

Have you tried (temporarily) no encryption?

 

i can't login to the router - and after the length of time it too me to successfully set this up with the other computers really don't want to reset it (unless i know no encryption followed by encryption would work)
plug laptop in with ethernet works

 

What model is the router?

 

sorry i did post that - some of the posts i am making are not appearing !
BEFW11S4
thanks

 

No problem,

I'm looking at page 33 of the version 4 Userguide (troubleshooting), Question 5

Have you followed those instructions?

A link to the manual can be found here in case you don't have one (select User guide 4th link down on the right).

Edit: The only other thing I can point you to right now is on page 44

Sorry, not much help but neither is that manual, gonna sleep now but I'll look back in the morning to see how you get on.

 

sorry for being thick but i can't see anything on that question that could help? as mentioned it works fine in linux i can't see the router being at fault here?

 

at the moment no. i would need to reset the router completely.
ideally some ideas non-router first would really help. the router is nowhere near the computer that i am using and last time i reset the router it took some time to get it all set up (i have a dsl modem router and a wireless router (working essentially as a switch/wireless access point) this may not help matters however it's not going to be replaced when as a say the computer that won't connect in windows will in linux. so naturally i'd like to just "get it working" on the computer. perhaps more difficult than i imagine?

 

firewall was off.
simple solution - used a dlink usb and stopped windows managing the connection - works instantly. so it's windows at fault here somehow or other as the other poster identified there are some serious bugs in XP wireless management. thanks for your help. i've no doubt if i rebuilt the machine it would work however in times like this simple solutions are the best.