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arch13 · 09-10-2005, 10:55 PM

Well I could just buy a PCI or USB card,, but what do I learn from that

Besides,money is tight righ now. Yes, even for a 15.00 WUSB.

So since my last post I have tried a few things.
I created a bridge between the two connections on the laptop, then used "netsh bridge show adapter" to look at the NICS in the bridge. I set the wireless NIC to forcecompatmode eneabled. I turned off dchp on the router and changed the router ip to the upper 100's to avoid any problems. That in theory would make the router behave as a hub without anything plugged into the wan port and two computers on lan ports. All of this should have worked.

What I'm realizing is that my problem is farther up the chain. When I create the bridge, the wireless connection remains connected to the neighbors router according to my network connection panel, but the bridge does not get assigned an IP by the router, nor does the bridge inherit the wireless connections IP.
Further, internet connectivity is lost completeley. Even with the wired laptop nic unplugged, the wireless connection has no access when a bridge is created even though the network panel shows it as connected.
I've tried setting the wireless NIC to forcecomptmode enabled and disabled, but neither regains connectivity as long as the bridge exist that it is a part of.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Edit:

Okay, I'm going to clarify here.

What I have done is the following. I created a bridge in XP on the laptop by selecting the wired NIC and the Wireless NIC in the connection panel. I right click and create a bridge out of these two highlighted connections.
Then I jump to a comand promt and enable forced campatability mode on both nics in the bridge as per this microsoft tutorial. This forces the NICS to analyze all packets regardless of orgin, thus allowing the bridge to function.
I disable dchp on my router and change the routers IP to a 192.x.x.x.100 number. By doing this, i have made the router nothing more than a standard fare hub with two computers plugged in.

The desktop should now see the laptop, and they do see each other via the hub. Both can be found in my network places on either machine.

I cannot even know at this point if the desktop could use the laptops WAN connection via the bridge however.

That is becuase the laptop can no longer access the internet once the bridge is created.
Before I turned on compatability mode, the wireless connection would be lost when the bridge was created. Once I enabled compatability on the NIC's as per the MS tutorial, both connections show as connected in the bridge. However, opening a firefox window quickly reveals that i can no longer access the internet via the wireless connection. It appears connected according to windows, but will not access the internet.

Gosh I hope someone has read this far and can help.
I'll point out that a big part of this is learning about how to do such things.

09-10-2005, 10:55 PM	#8 (permalink)
arch13 Loves my girl in thongs Location: North of Mexico, South of Canada	Well I could just buy a PCI or USB card,, but what do I learn from that Besides,money is tight righ now. Yes, even for a 15.00 WUSB. So since my last post I have tried a few things. I created a bridge between the two connections on the laptop, then used "netsh bridge show adapter" to look at the NICS in the bridge. I set the wireless NIC to forcecompatmode eneabled. I turned off dchp on the router and changed the router ip to the upper 100's to avoid any problems. That in theory would make the router behave as a hub without anything plugged into the wan port and two computers on lan ports. All of this should have worked. What I'm realizing is that my problem is farther up the chain. When I create the bridge, the wireless connection remains connected to the neighbors router according to my network connection panel, but the bridge does not get assigned an IP by the router, nor does the bridge inherit the wireless connections IP. Further, internet connectivity is lost completeley. Even with the wired laptop nic unplugged, the wireless connection has no access when a bridge is created even though the network panel shows it as connected. I've tried setting the wireless NIC to forcecomptmode enabled and disabled, but neither regains connectivity as long as the bridge exist that it is a part of. Does anyone have any suggestions? Edit: Okay, I'm going to clarify here. What I have done is the following. I created a bridge in XP on the laptop by selecting the wired NIC and the Wireless NIC in the connection panel. I right click and create a bridge out of these two highlighted connections. Then I jump to a comand promt and enable forced campatability mode on both nics in the bridge as per this microsoft tutorial. This forces the NICS to analyze all packets regardless of orgin, thus allowing the bridge to function. I disable dchp on my router and change the routers IP to a 192.x.x.x.100 number. By doing this, i have made the router nothing more than a standard fare hub with two computers plugged in. The desktop should now see the laptop, and they do see each other via the hub. Both can be found in my network places on either machine. I cannot even know at this point if the desktop could use the laptops WAN connection via the bridge however. That is becuase the laptop can no longer access the internet once the bridge is created. Before I turned on compatability mode, the wireless connection would be lost when the bridge was created. Once I enabled compatability on the NIC's as per the MS tutorial, both connections show as connected in the bridge. However, opening a firefox window quickly reveals that i can no longer access the internet via the wireless connection. It appears connected according to windows, but will not access the internet. Gosh I hope someone has read this far and can help. I'll point out that a big part of this is learning about how to do such things. __________________ Seen on an employer evaluation: "The wheel is turning but the hamsters dead" ____________________________ Is arch13 really a porn diety ? find out after the film at 11. -Nanofever Last edited by arch13; 09-11-2005 at 01:49 AM..