I've noticed that almost everyone on this forum

[dianep]

I've noticed that almost everyone on this forum gets their tablet and instantly and easily hooks up to their wireless networks. I have not been so lucky. For the first day, I could see my 3 wireless networks (work and home), seemed to have a strong connection but couldn't ever really transmit anything. I found a solution in another forum about using wireless with network bridge. You have to make the wireless adapter promiscuous. That solved my first problem except that I have to keep resetting it for some reason.

Now for my current problem. When I am WEP enabled, I am reminded every 3 minutes that wireless networks are available and I either have to reconnect or I am disconnected. So my solution was to disable WEP which isn't a good long term solution. I have installed and reinstalled three completely different networks and they all have the same problem. I even surreptiously logged onto my neighbor's network and had the same issue.

Any advice will be appreciated. I'm not a network guru!

dp

P.S. I'm still not sold on the network bridge concept and I would like to remove it. Is this advisable? I don't know why I need it.

[Bishop]

I'm no network guru either. I've never been able to get the bridges XP wants to set up to work w/ wireless.

I do use a WEP enabled wireless system at the office and no WEP on the wireless setup at home w/o problems.

What are the settings on the Broadcom Wireless Configuration Utility?

[dianep]

Driver Version 3.8.37.0. All the settings are default. I am automatically getting the IP and do not have a static IP. I tried putting IP, Gateway, etc. in and it made no difference. I'm not sure what specific settings you would like to know.

Did you disable the network bridge or are you still using it? I really think it is causing me these problems.

[wraith808]

I find that the network bridge always causes me problems. Even when WinXP wants to use it, I delete it, and haven't had any problems because of it.

[yvilla]

I had to delete it too.

[dianep]

I deleted network bridge and my problems at home have disappeared. I have WEP enabled my network again and have had no issues. Now I'll just have to try it at work again.

You guys rock! Thanks for the great advice.

dp

[cmspilot]

I had the same problem -fixed the problem by unchecking the "Enable IEEE 801.x authentication for this connection" in the wireless connection properties

[steveh from motion]

Hi -

This might be a good time to remind everyone about the Knowledge Base on the Motion site under the Support tab. If you go there and do a search on 'bridge', you will find a note pertaining to this issue, as well as a guide to disabling them.

Thanx!

[wraith808]

Heh. Thanks Steve... I haven't really had any problems so I haven't had to use it, but it's nice to know.