P5W DH Deluxe wirless network problems

Hi,



I have 2 PC's on which I am trying to set up a Wireless LAN

One has the ASUS P5W DH Deluxe board with WiFi Solo and the other has an
ASUS WL-138g V2 / WL-138gE WLAN card fitted

I think I have followed the instructions to the letter yet I cannot see any
shared files

Signal strength on both machines shows excellent, only 3 metres apart

I have set up under AP mode using WEP encryption where the key is identical
on both PC's but I still cannot see any shared files

Has any one else set up a WLAN using the ASUS software and had such problems
or can advise what to check?



Regards.



Griff.

Griff schrieb:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have 2 PC's on which I am trying to set up a Wireless LAN
>
> One has the ASUS P5W DH Deluxe board with WiFi Solo and the other has an
> ASUS WL-138g V2 / WL-138gE WLAN card fitted
>
> I think I have followed the instructions to the letter yet I cannot see any
> shared files
>
> Signal strength on both machines shows excellent, only 3 metres apart
>
> I have set up under AP mode using WEP encryption where the key is identical
> on both PC's but I still cannot see any shared files
>
> Has any one else set up a WLAN using the ASUS software and had such problems
> or can advise what to check?
>
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
> Griff.
>
>
Hi Griff,

I bought this mainboard and got so much troubles with WiFi as well like
you ..... Finally I got it to work: The trouble in my opinion is the
internet connection sharing. I use a router that distributes IP adresses
by DHCP on one ethernet card and is connected to an internet provider by
another network card (fli4l-router).
At first I have configured the WLAN as desired WPA/TKIP with passphrase
in the delivered ASUS WiFi Solo configuring program.

Next go to the network properties, mark the WLAN card a n d the
network card to your internet connection (in my case: going to the
router with dhcp). No right click on one of these and find the entry
"network bridge" (may be some different wording, I got a german WinXP
version). Do so. If it tells you, it can not bridge, you have to
de-share the internet connection sharing of the network card at first.

After this, Windows seems to see only one network card - the bridge- and
internet is running on all connecting laptops to the WLAN and on the
ASUS-PC as well.

I am not aware, what this bridging means to the security of my system.
May be some other has some background about this.


Hope this helps,
Kind regards

Lutz.

> Hi Griff,
>
> I bought this mainboard and got so much troubles with WiFi as well like
> you ..... Finally I got it to work: The trouble in my opinion is the
> internet connection sharing. I use a router that distributes IP adresses
> by DHCP on one ethernet card and is connected to an internet provider by
> another network card (fli4l-router).
> At first I have configured the WLAN as desired WPA/TKIP with passphrase in
> the delivered ASUS WiFi Solo configuring program.
>
> Next go to the network properties, mark the WLAN card a n d the
> network card to your internet connection (in my case: going to the router
> with dhcp). No right click on one of these and find the entry "network
> bridge" (may be some different wording, I got a german WinXP version). Do
> so. If it tells you, it can not bridge, you have to de-share the internet
> connection sharing of the network card at first.
>
> After this, Windows seems to see only one network card - the bridge- and
> internet is running on all connecting laptops to the WLAN and on the
> ASUS-PC as well.
>
> I am not aware, what this bridging means to the security of my system. May
> be some other has some background about this.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Kind regards
>
> Lutz.

Thanks Lutz, will give it a try.

Regards.

Griff.