Wireless connects to WRT54G router but no internet

[tlw]

I am havng a problem with my WRT54G v5. I have 2 laptops that cannot connect to the internet using wireless. I connect them to my home lan using wireless and look at files on other computers but no internet. When I connect the laptops using ethernet they both access the internet fine. I also have 3 desktops (using ethernet) which work fine. I have tried the following

Turning off wireless security and laptop wire walls
Downloading latest firmware
Checking TCPIP settings
Using a WRT54G v6 router - same problem
Ipconfig shows connection to the router at 192.168.1.1 and an address of
192.168.1.100. I can ping 192.168.1.1 successfully


My internet provider is Verizon
This worked at one point in time (May) but has not worked since June.

[gv]

a) This is the wired forum. I would try the wireless forum (or an admin moves the message over there)

b) Are you running personal firewalls on the laptops? Which one?

c) Can you ping addresses in the internet (ping www.linksys.com or ping 66.161.11.20 if dns does not work either)? If not, what error message do you get?

d) How does the traceroute output look like? (tracert www.linksys.com or tracert 66.161.11.20, the latter will take a few seconds if dns does not work)

[tlw]

a) It was moved.
b) I have my zone labs firewall turned off
c) Ping responds with
Reply from 192.168.1.1: Destination net unreachable
d)Tracert responds
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 192.168.1.1 reports: Destination net unreachable

These were done using 66.161.11.20

Using www.linksys.com they did not find the name.


Thanks.

[samuraix]

hi! you can consider this:

if both laptops are only able to connect to the network but not to the Internet, given that personal firewall is already dsiabled, no security on the router and hardwired connection works perfect, then, the router's wireless feature is not working at all. you might as well upgrade your router's firmware.

reset the router afterwards and proceed with the reconfiguration.

'ope this helps

[tlw]

Samuraix,

Thanks for the suggestion, but I tried it and it is the same as before.
My firmware is at level Version: v1.00.9

[penny_lane]

Hi,

Can you personalize the wireless settings of the router first by changing the SSID and enabling wireless security(WEP/WPA). After that, make sure the laptops reconnect to your new SSID. If it connects, check your IP address.

[stanley51]

Did you solve your problem?  I am having the exact same problem.

[b_]

I think I had a similar problem with my WRT54G v5: I did a factory reset (hold reset down for 30 s) as part of reconfiguring my system from cable modem to dsl, but from then on, I kept losing internet even though I could join the wireless network. I looked at the computer connected directly to the router (via ethernet cable) and found that it could no longer renew the IP address either. Clearly the problem was with the router since a direct connection to the modem worked fine.

I updated the firmware, toyed with all sorts of settings, and made no progress. I reconfigured it both manually through the router page (point a browser to 192.168.1.1) and by re-running the linksys setup software. I uninstalled the driver for the ethernet card (right click my computer->properties->hardware tab->device manager then right click the card to uninstall), as per some instructions I found on the web, but this accomplished very little. To prove that the windows box wasn't overloading the router (again some forums suggested this), I turned it off completely and used the wireless with a mac laptop. It still failed.

Based on the information on web forums and other tests, it seemed like there was clearly a software configuration error at the level of the router (firmware). On a whim, I wondered whether some sort of automatic setup type thing was interfering with my configuration. I noticed the "Secure Easy Setup" on the wireless tab of the router page, which I had previously dismissed as something for people who couldn't set things up themselves. I was wrong: I reconfigured the "SES" and NO MORE FAILURES! Wierdest of all, the SES status is still "inactive"!

What worked for me:

-open the router page in a browser (http://192.168.1.1)
-click the "Wireless" tab and then click the circular icon with the lock on it
-a dialog will open asking you to start the reconfiguration on the router
-hold down the "Cisco Systems" button (to the left of the power light) until it starts flickering white
-go back to the dialog box and click OK

after a long configuration, it will bring you back to the wireless page and it will look like nothing changed, but I was then able to run simultaneously P2P-ware, 128bit WEP, QoS protocol, etc.

Hopefully other people will notice an improvement too...

[JagDaddyO]

I had this same problem.  For some reason, my DHCP server wasn't working.  So, I went to one of my wired PC's and checked to see what the Primary and Secondary DNS servers were.  I wrote down those IP addresses and reconfigured my wireless nic with a static IP address i.e. (192.168.1.10) with subnet of 255.255.255.0 and gateway of 192.168.1.1

After saving those settings, I was able to connect to the Internet.

I hope this solution works for you also.

Cheers.