[MLB-WIRELESS] Problem with DI-714P+

bchild at wireless.org.au bchild at wireless.org.au
Tue Jul 8 13:25:51 EST 2003


Hi Cameron,

Sounds like you might have a similar case I had witht he DI-713P, just
back track 1 firmware verison & see if the problem is still there.  Worked
for me, but then I had a faulty power supply at the same time so I
replaced that, haven't had any problems since.

Regards Glen
(Node AAD)

> On the weekend I installed a D-Link DI-714P+ wireless router in my
> parents' office, along with DWL-520+s in the two computers there (98SE
> and XP).  Both yesterday morning and this morning the wireless
> connection hasn't worked when the computers were turned on again.  I
> have the DHCP lease time set to 1 day.
>
> Since I have a D-Link DSL-300 hanging off the WAN port of the router,
> which can't be changed from 192.168.0.1, I've set the IP address of the
> router to 10.0.0.1.  Yesterday morning, when trying to diagnose the
> problem, I found I couldn't access the router on either 10.0.0.1 or
> 192.168.0.1 with a wired connection, so I had to do a reset to factory
> defaults.
>
> This morning the router wasn't inaccessible but the wireless network
> still wasn't working.  On the DHCP page there were entries for the two
> wireless cards (and the Ethernet card from which I was checking this).
> One of these had a time in the future -- is this time meant to be the
> time it was leased or the expiry time?
>
> Anyway, neither computer could discover the wireless network.  All the
> right ESSID/WEP/Channel settings where in the clients and the router.
> Only when I rebooted the router could the wireless network be found
> again, and the clients got their IP addresses.
>
> I did upgrade the firmware to the latest version on the weekend.
>
> Anybody got any clues?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cameron
>
> --
> Cameron McCormack
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