Wifi Max Ordeal, please help!

Sogeking

Hi there,

I have been trying to set this thing up for my DS for the past, errrr, 6 hours?!! And it just wont work :S

At first, it just screwed my whole internet connection up and I had to restore my system a couple of times over before figuring out there was something wrong with it. It was the drivers that came in the CD, so I had to look for updated drivers untill I found them at www.codejunkies.com
Then, it was better but it just wouldnt connect to my computer let alone DS. Then I learned that I had to basically put all the numbers in the property page of it in order for it to recognise my pc. That too was solved and I have entered all the numbers required. Great, but wait a second.. the bloody thing is still not connecting to the DS. And I was getting this error msg that there was a conflict in my pc and two things were using the same ip number at the same time which would cause one of them to not function properly. I was baffled by then as I couldnt find any explanation to it everywhere I looked. I got through that too by sheer luck as I was fiddling about with it, and I honestly wouldnt know how to solve it again.

And it just kept going from there, from one problem to another. You could imagine how many wee problems like these would consume a quarter of a day to fix.

Im now back in square one, still baffled by this damn adaptor and I just refuse to give in. Please help me get online with my DS... I have almost checked evrey single search result for "wifimax ds datel problem".

Everything seems to be working fine now, I get Excellent signal and "Connected" from the wireless device. But it still refuses to connect to the DS, I dont know why.

Now I have took a screecap of every setting and everything I thought was relevant to this case, please do take a look at them and advice me as to what to do next.





















Can somebody help plz?


Oh, forgot to add: The error Im getting is a 52000 "Unable to obtain an IP address. Move within range of the access point or check DHCP setting".

greglo23

if you are using mac address filtering you may have to enter the mac address of the ds in the filter table. this has caught me out a few times i also came across this page http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=5778
maybe it might help !!it seems to be saying you have to install a server to get it to work !!

parsi

you could try changing the wireless mode (1st pic) to just "b" if that option is available.

Can the DS even see the dongle when you do a scan ?

thebman

Have you tried getting the advanced settings for Internet Protocol properties and changing netbios option from auto to enabled?

Windows sometimes screws the auto up. I don't know if it needs to be on or not though.

Presumably the DS can see the network?

Do you have the Windows firewall enabled for the network? If so either unblock the port or turn off the wirefall to try to get it going.

Seems to me it is a general Windows Networking problem and not a problem with the WiFi dongle. Wireless networking is a nightmare in Windows XP as I've found out myself.