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Some additional info:
1) I can ping out to the internet by ip address.
2) I hooked up one of the working laptops to the router,
and ran ipconfig to get its dns server addresses.
I then configured tcp/ip for the wired nic on the problem
laptop to use those dns server addresses. Now I could
go out to the internet by hostname. So it seems that
dns is the core issue here.
3) In w2k (the os on the working laptop), the tcp/ip configuration
screen has *both* a choice for server assigned ip address,
and server assigned dns addresses. Unless I'm missing
something, the tcp/ip configuration screen on nt4 doesn't
offer an explicit choice for server assigned dns addresses.
It only offers the choice of obtaining ip address from DHCP server.
4) Reminder: Before I installed the orinoco card on the
nt4 laptop, the laptop's wired connection was working
with the router. All I had to do was specify obtain ip address
from DHCP server --- I didn't do anything special for dns,
and hadn't realized it might be an issue.
So I'm limping along now, but I can't believe I'm doing this
right. Manually configuring the dns server addresses would
seem to defeat the whole purpose of DHCP.
Thanks for any help.
I wrote:
> I have a linksys dsl router / wireless access point.
> ...
> Synopsis: 2 1/2 other clients work fine, including a similar
> wired / wireless setup. The new orinoco card works on the
> lan, but not the internet, and installing the orinoco card caused
> the previously working wired connection on the same machine
> to quit working on the internet.
Frank R.Brown
Frank.R.Brown@MailAndNews
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