From: keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 4/12/2011 11:14 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:   
   > Nil  on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:16:19   
   > -0400 typed in alt.os.windows-xp  the following:   
   >> On 10 Apr 2011, pyotr filipivich  wrote in   
   >> alt.os.windows-xp:   
   >>   
   >>> I have a Wireless-G Broadband Router(model WRT54G) given me by my   
   >>> neighbor as "surplus to needs".  Yippee.  That was several months   
   >>> ago. I no longer have Internet connectivity - no land line - but   
   >>> my neighbor now does, with WiFi.  With his permission I'm using   
   >>> that. "Way cool".   
   >>>   
   >>> But I cannot get WinXP to "find" that unit.  Which means the   
   >>> desktop unit is still in "backup mode" (As in "I collect data on   
   >>> the laptop, and back up to the Desktop").   
   >>   
   >> I have no idea what you mean by that.   
   >   
   > 	I have wifi on the laptop.  I take the laptop to the Library, surf   
   > the web, download email, etc, then go home and copy files to the   
   > desktop unit - aka BlakBox.  I do this for various reasons, out side   
   > the scope of this problem.   
   >>   
   >>> One possible complication is that I "had" to install a network   
   >>> card, so the "standard" 192.168.1.1 connection reports back "not   
   >>> found".   
   >>   
   >> I don't understand what you mean by that, either.   
   >   
   > 	I was afraid of this. (That I don't understand the situation well   
   > enough to explain it to someone who might understand it better.)   
   >   
   >>   
   >> You are not clearly describing your problem or the situation. Are you   
   >> trying to wirelessly connect a desktop or a laptop?   
   >   
   > 	I am trying to receive a WiFi signal with the desktop computer.  I   
   > have a wireless  router.  When I plug that into the network port, I   
   > get no response.  Windows doesn't seem to recognize that it has been   
   > plugged in.   If I open up a browser, type "192.168.1.1" into the   
   > address bar - nothing happens.  On other setups, other machines, I get   
   > into the software of the modem.   
   > 	Windows does not seem to recognize that a wireless router has been   
   > plugged into BlakBox (the desktop) .  Or that anything has been   
   > plugged into the desktop machine (Windows Help is no help, as I can't   
   > get online with the WindowsXP computer, and apparently the idea that I   
   > might want information on a different OS than the one on the machine   
   > which does connect, seems beyond them.)   
   > 	The network port built into the Blakbox is "broke" - it don't   
   > work.  Not for many years.  Took the USB ports with it when it went.   
   > So I installed a separate USB card, and a separate Network card.   
   > Neither seem to notice if the wireless router modem is plugged in.   
   >   
   >   
   >> Do you have a wireless adapter installed?   
   >   
   > 	Is that not the wireless router?   
   >   
   >   
      
   To summarize:   
   You need an internet card in the desktop.  It can be either a wireless   
   card or an Ethernet card.  You can direct connect the desktop to the   
   laptop as Windows does have a computer to computer LAN system.  Or as   
   you are trying connect through the router.   
      
   When I had a similar situation I had an either net card in the desktop   
   and had it hard wired to the wireless router.  With the Window software   
   I could share files between the two computers.  Before I got DSL I had   
   both computers connected to the dial up phone line.   
      
   If you have the internet card in the desktop, check to see if it is   
   being recognized in the Device Manager. If it did not work, uninstall   
   the device driver in the Device Manager and let the computer refind the   
   device. It may take the installation disk that came with the card to get   
   the computer to recognize the card.   
      
   You said something about USB, so it sounded like you had a USB device   
   for the network connection.  Check the USB port by using another USB   
   device if if the other device works, the USB network device is not being   
   recognized. Try uninstalling the USB Network drives from the Device   
   Manager, and let windows reinstall it, or run the installation program   
   for the USB Network card.   
      
   If physically everything is working, It probably would be easier to you   
   the Network set up wizards on both computers.  Some router also have set   
   up wizards.  There are many sites on the web that discusses setting the   
   parameters to get the computers to talk to each other.   
      
   You really need the exact model for the router and the model and brand   
   of the computer, to help in trouble shoot these parameters. DO NOT TRY   
   TO SECURE THE CONNECTION UNTIL IT IS WORKING, it just complicates the   
   process.   
      
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