Wireless Access Points

[LSR]

Hey, long time since I've been here - but I've realised I am well and truly out of my depth with this.

Basically -

I want to go online with my DS. Unforunately my router uses WPA encryption, which isn't supported by the DS, and it's just not feasible to change the encryption. So I've bought a wireless USB access point for my PC. Here's where the problems start!

I've plugged in and booted up - and my DS can see and access the access point. It can 'connect' to it - my computer registers that a MAC address is trying to access it. But unfortunately, my DS always comes up with one error or another.. usually it is that it cannot be assigned an IP address, or something similar.

So I try and manually set an IP address and... bugger. I can't just set the IP address - I have to set a subnet mask, gateway, DNS servers too. I have no idea what any of this means really, I'm just flapping around. Anyway, I know ipconfig -all gets the DNS etc. for my COMPUTER'S connection, but I don't want that - those would be the stats for a direct connection to my router, right?

What I want to know is what settings to use to, basically, get it to access the access point.

Also, I've set my existing NETGEAR in my access point's settings as a 'Bridge Adaptor'. I'm guessing it means that my NETGEAR (which is accessing the router) is sending information to my access point. Is this correct? Am I doing the right thing? Is it even doing anything at all?

I'm guessing my complete lack of any knowledge comes across, and for that I apologise.. but any guidance at all would be absolutely superb.

I've been bashing my head against a brick wall for the last 5 hours with this, and I'm just stuck..

Cheers guys!

 

[lawson_jl]

What your doing should be easy but it tends to be difficult to do and sketchy at best. What I would recommend doing is to take the USB access point back and get a second router. Plug your router into one of the ethernet ports on your new router and set it's wireless to WEP for the DS. This way you have two wireless access points and both are stable.

 

[oregon]

Or just log into the router settings and change the encryption. If you know the password and account, it takes all of a minute. Surely this would be easiest...but, if not, I wouldn't know how to help. Possibly broadcast two networks?

 

[massahwahl]

Why not just use a different type of encryption? As previous poster said it literally takes 2 minutes to do and is completely a no brainer here...

 

[LSR]

Or just log into the router settings and change the encryption. If you know the password and account, it takes all of a minute.

The trouble being, it's not my router, it's my dad's - and he is damn touchy about me changing anything on the Router. His laptop took all of 6 hours to configure, so he just refuses any request anyone makes to change any setting on the router. I can try it, but meh.

Now broadcasting two networks - that sounds interesting. I've logged on to my Netgear DG834GT, but I have no idea how to broadcast two.

Thanks again.