Win2k wired and wireless

[DinkyR]

Hi,

Am having a problem making win2k work both on wired and wireless at the same time. The setup is Win2k server with DHCP enabled. We have several PCs (win2k and xp) wired to the network through a switch and everything works fine. We recently subscribed to a DSL service and I could not figure out how to connect it to the network.

What I did was to connect a Linksys WUSB54g to a Win2k PC while at the same time it is connected to the local network through a switch. This works fine but if I try to setup a Linksys WMP54G PCI version 4 card on another PC, they won't play nice. The wireless PCI will not connect. It would continually connect and disconnect. This only happens on win2k. Everything is fine on an XP machine.

What can I do to make them work with each other on the win2k machine?

Thank you for any help.

DinkyR

[den]

Dinky, I'm having more or less the same problem. WMP54G continually connects and disconnects if the motherboard's NIC is enabled, works fine if disabled. The linksys website says "You will need to disable the NIC if you want to use the wireless card." This is preposterous. I may contact Linksys support to tell them so, or I may just return the thing.

I tried the equivalent D-Link card before this and didn't have this problem but had others (blue screen on Win ME).

Let me hear how you landed on this one.

den

[DinkyR]

Hi den,

Thanks for the reply. As I said this only happens with Win2k and the WMP54G. If it's XP and WMP54G, it works. If it's Win2k and WUSB54G, it works also. Personally, I don't like D-Link but may try other brands such as Netgear or Zyxel if I have too.

Dinky

[den]

Well, my problem is fixed. I did write Linksys and a Thomas there suggested a possible problem with "too many TCP/IP bindings, in 98/ME the max is 5." I only had three, one for each of the three adapters Dial-Up, Linksys, and VIA (the motherboard's NIC). But he got me on the right track. I noticed the Linksys install had added an "IEEE 802.1x protocol" adapter to Network Properties. Curiously, this appeared unadorned, no right arrow pointing to the Linksys adapter. I clicked on the Linksys Properties..Bindings tab and the 802.1x was shown there. BUT, I also checked the bindings of my other two adapters (Dial-UP and the motherboard's VIA adapter) and 802.1x was also bound to each of these... fishy. Why would the Linksys install bind a wireless protocol to wired adapters? I unchecked the 802.1x protocol binding for the two other adapters, problem solved, my wired and wireless cards live in harmony. This is a bug in the Linksys installer it seems, and I've asked Thomas to get it fixed and documented on their website.

[DinkyR]

That's great news. I'll have to try that though it will have to wait till the weekend probably. Hope it works on Win2k as it did for 98/ME. Thanks for the info.

Dinky