Hello Helpful Humans,

I was sent here from the Win2k General.

I recently purchased a  refurb. wireless PCMCIA card for my notebook.
Netgear WN511b and Compaq Presario 1700 17XL265 Win2000 sp4.

I followed instructions, installed newest drivers, put the card in when
prompted. Got a strong signal and the status is
"Connected to router" It should however say "connected to internet". Because
of this webpages do not load. I uninstalled and reinstalled
several times.
It works with a wire. The manual that I also downloaded says in the
troubleshooting section is that this would be a network configuration
problem, but then how come it works with a wire. I took off the firewall,
same problem.
I googled it and the best thing that came so far is this 3rd party software
called
Network Magic. www.networkmagic.com/download When it's  installed
everything works. It's only a 7 day
trial version, however
cost $60.00 to keep it. When I take it off the problem comes back. How did
Network Magic fix the problem, I can't figure out.

Using WEP security 64 bit.
Windows 2000 IP Configuration ipconfig/all:

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : notebook1
Primary DNS Suffix  . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : RangeMax(tm) NEXT Wireless Notebook
Adapter WN511B
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-14-6C-D2-E8-82

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.91.15

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Cable Disconnected

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Compaq 10_100 MiniPCI Ethernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-8B-AB-A1-20

===========================================================================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x1000003 ...00 50 8b ab a1 20 ...... Compaq 10_100 MiniPCI Ethernet NIC
0x2000004 ...00 14 6c d2 e8 82 ...... RangeMax(tm) NEXT Wireless Notebook
Adapter WN511B
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
       127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1   1
     169.254.0.0      255.255.0.0    169.254.91.15   169.254.91.15   1
   169.254.91.15  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1   1
 169.254.255.255  255.255.255.255    169.254.91.15   169.254.91.15   1
       224.0.0.0        224.0.0.0    169.254.91.15   169.254.91.15   1
 255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255    169.254.91.15         1000003   1
===========================================================================

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.