mn-700 base and 710 adaptor fine, but orinoco in laptop not

[Guest]

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Installed mn-700 base and using mn-710 adaptor (little usb
thing with antenna) and all works perfectly. Have a laptop
I want on the network also. Configured Lucent / Orinoco
wireless PCMCIA card in the laptop and it sees the base,
gets very high signal strength, but no packets ever
received from base.

Is MS locking out other brands?

-Jerry

 

[Guest]

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Check the settings for the wifi card. Match SSID, channel,
and WEP key, key length, and key type with the router.
SOmetimes it helps to disable WEP initially, and/or
assigning a static IP on the card (e.g. 192.168.2.2, mask
255.255.255.0, DNS/gateway 192.168.2.1).

>-----Original Message-----
>Installed mn-700 base and using mn-710 adaptor (little usb
>thing with antenna) and all works perfectly. Have a laptop
>I want on the network also. Configured Lucent / Orinoco
>wireless PCMCIA card in the laptop and it sees the base,
>gets very high signal strength, but no packets ever
>received from base.
>
>Is MS locking out other brands?
>
>-Jerry
>.
>

 

[joker]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.broadbandnet.hardware (More info?)

You might try the following article

824871 MSBBN: Cannot Connect to MN-500 Wireless Base Station by Using an
ORiNOCO Wireless Network Adapter

JerryAck wrote:

> Installed mn-700 base and using mn-710 adaptor (little usb
> thing with antenna) and all works perfectly. Have a laptop
> I want on the network also. Configured Lucent / Orinoco
> wireless PCMCIA card in the laptop and it sees the base,
> gets very high signal strength, but no packets ever
> received from base.
>
> Is MS locking out other brands?
>
> -Jerry