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All, went over last night to set up the laptop on the neighbours wireless network. It found the network, asked for a password, whacked that in it says connected to network at full strength.
It can't get on the internet, so tried pinging the other computers in the house and got nothing. Checked the IP allocated to the lappy, and it was 0.0.0.0 Tried telling it to repair the IP, that causes the router to totally crash, all computers lose network, takes a restart of the router to get it going again. Checked the IPs of one of the other computers, stole all the DNS and portal settings, used IP 192.168.0.101, which aint in use, it comes back saying that the laptop is connected, but only at 1.0mbps an still cant ping any other computer in the network.

Soooo... tried plugging it straight into the router with a cable, finds network, internet and all straight away.

Any ideas? Need to get this going or he aint gonna take the lappy

Laptop Card - Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG
Router - DI-624+
Second Computer WIC- DWL-G650+

haveto be a setting in the router

i set up a static ip network on my router using the port forward guides and it worked a charm first time.

the router settings can be a bit tricky. just get the guide for that router, the wireless as you said takes care of itself.

last edited by infi at 14:26:33 21/Dec/05

MAC Filtering possibly?
Not sure how it works in relation to letting you access the network and all that, but basically if it's in place you need to identify your mac address of your lappy by typing "ipconfig /all" in the command prompt on the lappy. Then add that physical address number to the allowed list in the router.

Voting for access control being on. No idea how you would make the router crash.

mac filtering

a) reset router to default settings
b) firmware update router

Not sure how it works in relation to letting you access the network and all that, but basically if it's in place you need to identify your mac address of your lappy by typing "ipconfig /all" in the command prompt on the lappy. Then add that physical address number to the allowed list in the router.

just fyi, if your router is like mine you can go into the mac filtering section, click wireless clients and there's a list of active/inactive clients and the ability to auth/deny their mac address. Just a more noob friendly way of doing what he suggested.

Mind you I'm using 3rd party firmware so your mileage may vary. (I have a wrt54g)

I've never used a DI-624+, but I have a DI-624 (108mbit version) and to enable/disable IP/Mac filtering, you go into the advanced tab (along the top) and select filters on the left...

^^ i had a 604 i think. sounds like mac address.

i think seven's on the money with mac filtering.