dragon2309

Right, i bought and installed a SWEEX USB ADAPTER (wireless 802.11b/g). Installed on windows 98 went fine, utility manages the networks, it found my router's signal and after about 5 mins of "connecting" it connected, and the signal strength was up around 80%.

I am more experienced with windows XP Pro, and not 98se. How do i tell the pc that i want to use the internet connection that would come from the wireless network. The pc has no dialup connections installed or anything, when i try to open a web page all i get is "page cannot be displayed". I assume this is because it has no connection. So, how do i tell windows 98 that i want to use the internet connection from the USB adapter.

Any help or pointers/tips would be much appreciated.

dragon2309

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dragon2309

anyone at all, this is quite urgent!

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Professor

I had a problem exactly like this, what I did was I had to disable a firewall program I had running because for some reason it didn't like what I was doing, but didn't tell me. Once I disabled it and just used the windows firewall I was fine. I don't know if this would help or not.

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dragon2309

its a clean install, there is no firewall or AV software installed. I upgraded it to WinXP ut now when when i run the network wizard, there is no option to select which connection to use for internet. What is going on, is it a fault with the USB adapter or what, It says the Wireless Netowrk Connection is connected but there is nothign about Internet Connection and no internet pages will load. I cannot ping either.

Please HELP!!

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celsdogg

try right clickin on the wireless network connection in xp, and clickin on Available Networks. That will show you all the SSID's that your wifi adapter can pick up.

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