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Hello, I've just started my own wireless network at my place but I'm having troubles with it. I have a netgear wireless router and I'm using a Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card.

Using the ACU, I have WEP enabled, Shared Key, Router Settings match Card Settings. The card Associates with my accesspoint. However, the IP address is blank sometimes, or it gives a random windows IP address when no address is sent via DHCP.

I've fiddled with this for almost two nights in a row with no success. I've tried setting the IP address / gateway + DNS addresses static. No Internet Connection. I've also Tried it with DHCP with no luck.
I'm using Windows XP Pro SP1. This was my first attempt at setting up a wireless network, I hope the solution is just something i've overlooked.

EDIT: Does anyone have any insight into this? Could it be the netgear router?

I am not sure if I understand the problem, is it just that you cant see your IP address in one of the ACU windows, or are you having connection problems?

The router is one of those netgear half wired half wireless and has a DHCP server built in. The wired part connects to the internet. The wireless part will associate to the Router but not connect to the internet.

When you put the default gateway set to the router, the internet still doesn't work but it will associate.

Regardless of what setup you have, be it Static IP Address assigned manually, or a DHCP setup, There will be no internet connection available through wireless. There will be through the wired plugs.

EDIT: When its associated most times the IP address is 0.0.0.0 for the DHCP setup and Whatever IP I put for the static setup. Either way the internet isn't accessible.

I think one of the first things I would check for is an update for ACU, Cisco has a update utility you can download (its free, you just have swear that you are not a terrorest) and it automaticly detects hardware and updates ACU software (not sure if it does firmware). some versions of ACU have a troubleshooting feature (options/troubleshooting)

I have the latest version of ACU installed and the firmware is updated to the latest version. I downloaded it from their website.
That's the only reason it will associate, when I use the troubleshooter, it'l go through the test and fails on the eighth test with a error "TCP/IP not installed correctly" or something similar. 8. I don't have it in front of me at the moment.

EDIT: The system's running WinXP Home SP1.