Where art thou Internet?

[leefennessy]

I bought an old old computer for $148 running Windows 2000 Pro. This overblown paperweight came with a "Instant Wireless PCI Card V2.7", which I have ignored for accessing the Internet since I use my BlackBerry Wireless Broadband function to connect to the Internet (from my phone to the computer) and the access is easy, quick and with no problems. I decided it would be nice if I could access the Internet using the above Wireless PCI Card. I had to do double flips, pray to Budda, rub my lucky stone, and I finally got the Wireless card to be recognized by the computer (I use that word lightly). The card software, which I had to go onto the Internet to get since this $148 deal did not come with an installation CD, states I am connected to an Ad-Hoc Network at 11 Mbps on Channel 6, WEP is on, DHCP is enabled and it shows the IP address. One little problem, when I try to access any site on the Internet I get the "White screen of death", ie, just a bunch of writing and, of course, a link to "Detect Network Settings", which achieves nothing. Does anyone know what is wrong? Perhaps I should take out the PCI card and use it to scrape the mud off my shoes? Ok guys and gals out there who are Wayyyyyyy smarter than I am on computers, is there anything I can change?

Thanks

Lee in Texas

[johnwill]

I have no idea, but one issue is the Ad-Hoc network. Are you connecting to a broadband router? How about a complete description of the whole environment?

Please supply the following info, exact make and models of the equipment please.

What country are you located in.
Name of your ISP (Internet Service Provider).
Make and exact model of the broadband modem.
Make and exact model of the router (if a separate unit).
Model numbers can usually be obtained from the label on the device.
Connection type, wired or wireless.
If wireless, encryption used, (none, WEP, WPA, or WPA2)
Make and model of your computer.
Version and patch level of Windows on all affected machines, i.e. XP-Home (or XP-Pro), SP1-SP2, Vista, etc.
The Internet Browser in use, IE, Firefox, Opera, etc.

Also, please give an exact description of your problem symptoms, including the exact text of any error messages. If there are other computers on the same network, are they experiencing the same issue, or do they function normally?




On any affected computer, I'd also like to see this:

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

Type the following commands:

PING 216.109.112.135

PING yahoo.com

NBTSTAT -n

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.

[leefennessy]

Here is what I got when I "Pinged" Yahoo


Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>PING 216.109.112.135

Pinging 216.109.112.135 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=795ms TTL=44
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=273ms TTL=44
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=256ms TTL=44
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=263ms TTL=44

Ping statistics for 216.109.112.135:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 256ms, Maximum = 795ms, Average = 396ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>PING yahoo.com

Pinging yahoo.com [66.94.234.13] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=187ms TTL=43
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=210ms TTL=44
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=196ms TTL=43
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=194ms TTL=44

Ping statistics for 66.94.234.13:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 187ms, Maximum = 210ms, Average = 196ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>NBTSTAT -n

Local Area Connection 2:
Node IpAddress: [0.0.0.0] Scope Id: []

No names in cache

Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [0.0.0.0] Scope Id: []

No names in cache

\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{7BEE6612-AAEF-46A6-9429-6B1018604B5D}:
Node IpAddress: [72.121.204.224] Scope Id: []

No names in cache

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>IPCONFIG /ALLPING 216.109.112.135

Windows 2000 IP Configuration

Error: Unrecognized command line argument "ALLPING"


USAGE:
ipconfig [/? | /all | /release [adapter] | /renew [adapter]
| /flushdns | /registerdns
| /showclassid adapter
| /setclassid adapter [classidtoset] ]

adapter Full name or pattern with '*' and '?' to 'match',
* matches any character, ? matches one character.
Options
/? Display this help message.
/all Display full configuration information.
/release Release the IP address for the specified adapter.
/renew Renew the IP address for the specified adapter.
/flushdns Purges the DNS Resolver cache.
/registerdns Refreshes all DHCP leases and re-registers DNS names
/displaydns Display the contents of the DNS Resolver Cache.
/showclassid Displays all the dhcp class IDs allowed for adapter.
/setclassid Modifies the dhcp class id.

The default is to display only the IP address, subnet mask and
default gateway for each adapter bound to TCP/IP.

For Release and Renew, if no adapter name is specified, then the IP address
leases for all adapters bound to TCP/IP will be released or renewed.

For SetClassID, if no class id is specified, then the classid is removed.

Examples:
> ipconfig ... Show information.
> ipconfig /all ... Show detailed information
> ipconfig /renew ... renew all adapaters
> ipconfig /renew EL* ... renew adapters named EL....
> ipconfig /release *ELINK?21* ... release all matching adapters,
eg. ELINK-21, myELELINKi21adapter.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>PING yahoo.com

Pinging yahoo.com [66.94.234.13] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=604ms TTL=44
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 66.94.234.13:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 604ms, Maximum = 604ms, Average = 151ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>NBTSTAT -n

Local Area Connection 2:
Node IpAddress: [0.0.0.0] Scope Id: []

No names in cache

Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [0.0.0.0] Scope Id: []

No names in cache

\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{7BEE6612-AAEF-46A6-9429-6B1018604B5D}:
Node IpAddress: [72.121.204.224] Scope Id: []

No names in cache

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>IPCONFIG /ALL


Lee in Texas

[johnwill]

This is two commands, you enter them one at a time.

IPCONFIG /ALL <Enter>

PING 216.109.112.135 <Enter>

[johnwill]

What about the descriptions of all the equipment?

[vharper]

I have the same card. I went to the LinkSys site to download the drivers. It is WEP encryption. Are there any drivers, or other way, to make it see WPA encryption?