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_LAU_ Posts: > 500

Hello

It's the first time I'm playing around with an Wi-Fi PCI board, and I'm having difficulty setting up the thing...

It's easy enough to create an Ah hoc internet connection to the Phone (with WEP authentication) and connect, but I never managed to get internet running.

The phone authenticates, the globe flashes, and says it's connected to the PC (some bytes are tranferred), but I still have no internet -> Opera says it can not reach the sites.

Anyone with _Windows_Vista_ that have experience on this?

Do you know if there are anything I need to configure/remove/disable/whatever ON VISTA?

I've even tried disabling the Vista firewall and disabling the power saving feature on the phone, but it didn't help.

I guess I need a Windows Vista WLan Ad Hoc Help for dummies...

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Posted: 2007-10-24 11:15:14
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pnf1973 Posts: 403

You will need to bridge the network connections between the ad-hoc connection and the internet enabled connection.

The problem I found when trying to do it was that I could not connect to the internet whilst i had the adhoc on, as i use the wlan to connect to the internet.

But, provided you have a wired connection also, OR another wlan card you should be able to bridge the ad-hoc and internet connection in the network connections.
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Posted: 2007-10-24 11:31:16
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_LAU_ Posts: > 500

Thanks for the answer.

I bridged the network card and the wifi card _BUT_ after that the PC lost the internet connection and I could no longer browse.

What's the trick?

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Posted: 2007-10-24 11:37:34
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pnf1973 Posts: 403

Hmmmmmmm maybe you need to share the internet connection instead of bridging them then......

[edit] yes, sharing your wired connection should do it, click on the sharing tab on the properties for the network connection, there is even some help available which looks pretty straight forward. You have to explicitly define the services and ports you want to share though, looking at it the sharing only defaults to http traffic

[ This Message was edited by: pnf1973 on 2007-10-24 10:47 ]
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Posted: 2007-10-24 11:40:52
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_LAU_ Posts: > 500

Yes, that's what I I'm doing.

In the WiFi card->Properties I checked all the checkbox to share the internet connection.
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Posted: 2007-10-24 11:46:48
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pnf1973 Posts: 403

Did it work?
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Posted: 2007-10-24 11:47:52
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_LAU_ Posts: > 500

No, that's why I'm here trying to figure what's going on.
Mybe I need to return the board and get enother brand.
Maybe it's some incompatibility, or maybe it Vista that's not alowing the internet connectio to run
(security plus more security all the time)
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Posted: 2007-10-24 11:56:39
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_LAU_ Posts: > 500

Hello

I'm glad to say that after another (and another) session of trial and error I've managed to connect the P1i to my PCI WiFi card (no router), using an Ad-Hoc connection.

What happened whas that I shared the WRONG card!
Instead of sharing the PCI lan, I shared the WLan!

(no comments)

Thank you for all the help

For reference, the Card is an EDIMAX EW-7628Ig on Windows Vista, but the chipset is Ralink.
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Posted: 2007-10-25 11:56:47
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pnf1973 Posts: 403

Ahhhhh! Its always the silly things that get you in the end

Glad you got it sorted!
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Posted: 2007-10-25 13:07:58
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