HELP -Wireless network problem - dialling broadband

pencil

Hi

I have my laptop connected from a wireless card to a wireless access point - both are communication fine. The wireless access point is connected to my eircom ADSL modem (ethernet).

I cannot get my eircom broadband diallup software to log on through the wireless connection - how is this done?

dub45

pencil wrote:

Hi

I have my laptop connected from a wireless card to a wireless access point - both are communication fine. The wireless access point is connected to my eircom ADSL modem (ethernet).

I cannot get my eircom broadband diallup software to log on through the wireless connection - how is this done?

I am not quite sure what you mean - but your Eircom modem should just log on as normal that part of it has nothing got to do with your wireless network. Have you tried to connect as normal or have you altered any settings in the modem?

pencil

Hey Dub45

I'm using a linksys WAP54g wireless router - which is suppose to sit on top of any existing network & feed out wireless. It doesn't have built in PPoE dialling software. So I'm trying to get broadband dialler software on the laptop to connect from the laptop through the wireless connection then on to the ASDL modem & log on. (hope that makes sense)

pencil

So the laptop & wireless router are communicating wirelessly but either one of the following is happening (I think)

the adsl connection isn't making it from the adsl modem and on to the wireless access point .

or

The standard WIN broadband diallup network connection thingy (in newtork connections) isn't configered to look through the wireless connection.

Hope that explains it

dub45

pencil wrote:

So the laptop & wireless router are communicating wirelessly but either one of the following is happening (I think)

the adsl connection isn't making it from the adsl modem and on to the wireless access point .

or

The standard WIN broadband diallup network connection thingy (in newtork connections) isn't configered to look through the wireless connection.

Hope that explains it

What you need to do as a first step is make sure the modem connects to Eircom in the normal way then the linksys should pick up the internet signal via the ethernet and the wireless connection does the rest. This issue has been raised before so if you have a look through the posts in 'broadband' you should easily find what settings you need to adjust in the linksys.

tomk

At a guess, I'd say the €ircon dialler is a PPPoE client, intended for use on machines that are directly connected to an ADSL modem. Further, I'd say your modem - Cayman Netopia, right? - is actually a modem and router, and has it's own PPPoE client. So the Netopia is meant to handle the ADSL connection exclusively, and then distribute internet connectivity via ethernet to whatever machine is connected, which maes the laptop's dialler stuff redundant.

How's my guesswork?

optiplexgx270

may be a dumb suggestion but i take it you have opened the ip of the dsl modem and entered the username password eircom & broadband1 once this is done (and i only needed to do it once) it works fine well for me anyways.