Let me preface this by saying that I know there are several "wireless" threads here, and I have searched on them, but I'm not finding the answer, so I thought I'd raise it again and see if anyone else is having the same issue as myself.
I just received my new XPS M170, which includes a Intel/PRO 2200 BG wireless card. The laptop seems to "see" my LinkSys router just fine (in fact, it can see about dozen routers in the neighborhood around me). When I attept to connnect to the router, is *claims* it is connected. But it lies. It doesn't really obtain a valid IP address from the router, and the gateway and DNS suffix info is missing altogether.
I googled all over on this. I updated to the latest Dell drivers, and then I downloaded the even-more-recent drivers right from Intel, but no change. I tried using the built-in Windows Zero-point config utility instead, but again, same result.
I did a "hard reset" on my router, and everything is setup like it was "out of the box", with no security on whatsoever, so no WEP or anything like that is setup, no MAC address are excluded, etc. It's a wide open system. No change. I tried filtering on the MAC address as was suggessted in another post - no only did that not help, but for some reason it booted my hardwired PC's. By the way, if I hardwire the laptop, it works just fine.
Long story short, I'm running out of ideas. Some people have suggested replacing the Intel board with a BroadCom board, which might be an option if I can convince Dell to do it. But I'm curious to see if anyone has the Intel 2200 working with their LinkSys, and if so, can you tell me how you did it?
I just received my new XPS M170, which includes a Intel/PRO 2200 BG wireless card. The laptop seems to "see" my LinkSys router just fine (in fact, it can see about dozen routers in the neighborhood around me). When I attept to connnect to the router, is *claims* it is connected. But it lies. It doesn't really obtain a valid IP address from the router, and the gateway and DNS suffix info is missing altogether.
I googled all over on this. I updated to the latest Dell drivers, and then I downloaded the even-more-recent drivers right from Intel, but no change. I tried using the built-in Windows Zero-point config utility instead, but again, same result.
I did a "hard reset" on my router, and everything is setup like it was "out of the box", with no security on whatsoever, so no WEP or anything like that is setup, no MAC address are excluded, etc. It's a wide open system. No change. I tried filtering on the MAC address as was suggessted in another post - no only did that not help, but for some reason it booted my hardwired PC's. By the way, if I hardwire the laptop, it works just fine.
Long story short, I'm running out of ideas. Some people have suggested replacing the Intel board with a BroadCom board, which might be an option if I can convince Dell to do it. But I'm curious to see if anyone has the Intel 2200 working with their LinkSys, and if so, can you tell me how you did it?
