Hi,
recently, while trying to put an old baby on my wifi network, I have encountered several problems when setting the IP adress, or in general trying to configure the network device, a Atheros AR5006X pci wifi card.
After installing the card, and having it set up according to my network (WPA2 did not work with it, so I had to dissable it for the sake of getting a connection), the Atheros software, as well as windows confirmed a positive association with the AP, however, neither did I get assigned an IP adress nor was any traffic existing from the client side.
I did some troubleshooting and it turned out that it said, that ipconfig.exe was not working properly.So I went to the command prompt and tried
to see whether or not my device was at all recognized. It turned out, that the pci card was not even recognized as a network device with ipconfig!
After than trying to configure an IP in the Properties window, a prompt came up telling me that I had to restart the computer in order for the changes to become active. Did this... Well, and still, the changes were not adapted after the restart (stupid also, I have never been asked this anywhere before in relation to IPs).
I am kinda hopeless with this, since I have tried several adaptors now, and every single one of the wireless devices had the same problem.
After this long explanation: does anybody have any experience with this issue?
Help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, kingair_six
recently, while trying to put an old baby on my wifi network, I have encountered several problems when setting the IP adress, or in general trying to configure the network device, a Atheros AR5006X pci wifi card.
After installing the card, and having it set up according to my network (WPA2 did not work with it, so I had to dissable it for the sake of getting a connection), the Atheros software, as well as windows confirmed a positive association with the AP, however, neither did I get assigned an IP adress nor was any traffic existing from the client side.
I did some troubleshooting and it turned out that it said, that ipconfig.exe was not working properly.So I went to the command prompt and tried
Code:
ipconfig /all
After than trying to configure an IP in the Properties window, a prompt came up telling me that I had to restart the computer in order for the changes to become active. Did this... Well, and still, the changes were not adapted after the restart (stupid also, I have never been asked this anywhere before in relation to IPs).
I am kinda hopeless with this, since I have tried several adaptors now, and every single one of the wireless devices had the same problem.
After this long explanation: does anybody have any experience with this issue?
Help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, kingair_six