I hope that I'm being thick here and someone can help.
I bought a Billion 5200G + dongle and a SMC generic dongle. I have set up the wired network/adsl fine, and I can get the SMC dongle to work on either machine, but the Billion dongle does not want to work. It detects the wireless network but will not connect. I have tried using the windows zero config and the billion wireless setup and neither work. The only thing that I can see that is strange is the ip address of the billion dongle which is something like 169.254.1.69. I have tried setting it manually to 192.168.1.7 but still no show. To make things simple I have the network set to open and no encryption to remove that layer of issues.
I've run out of ideas, and I can't see why the dongle that comes with the router will not play. I suppose that I could just be unlucky, but it seems unlikely.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
I bought a Billion 5200G + dongle and a SMC generic dongle. I have set up the wired network/adsl fine, and I can get the SMC dongle to work on either machine, but the Billion dongle does not want to work. It detects the wireless network but will not connect. I have tried using the windows zero config and the billion wireless setup and neither work. The only thing that I can see that is strange is the ip address of the billion dongle which is something like 169.254.1.69. I have tried setting it manually to 192.168.1.7 but still no show. To make things simple I have the network set to open and no encryption to remove that layer of issues.
I've run out of ideas, and I can't see why the dongle that comes with the router will not play. I suppose that I could just be unlucky, but it seems unlikely.
Any suggestions gratefully received.