Motorola simplefi Set Static IP Address for Wireless Adapter, Appendix D, Configuring Ip Address

APPENDIX D CONFIGURING IP ADDRESS

INFORMATION

Why would this occur? Your PC might select a different IP address for your Wireless USB Network Adapter if, for example, you have many PCs on your wireless network. When you turn off your PC, another PC arriving on the network can take the IP address last used by your PC. Likewise, DHCP may assign a different IP address to your wireless adapter when you restart Windows.

DHCP and AutoIP do not normally, in practice, assign different IP addresses to the same network adapter. But, this can occasionally occur.

To fix this problem, you can do one of two things:

(1)Rediscover your simplefi. For more information, see Section 3, Installation.

(2)Configure the simplefi IP address, and re-discover the simplefi. Then, set the IP address of your PC Wireless USB Network Adapter to a static IP address. The procedure to specify

a static IP address for the PC Wireless USB Network Adapter follows. For help on configuring the simplefi IP address, see Set simplefi IP Address below.

Set Static IP Address for Wireless Adapter

To set a static IP address for your Wireless USB Network Adapter, follow the steps below.

NOTE: The following procedure is similar for all of the supported operating systems, but the dialog boxes may look slightly different from the Windows 98SE dialog boxes shown in this installation procedure.

1Open the Start menu on your PC and select Settings>Control Panel. Double-click Network icon.

2Scroll down until you find a TCP/IP entry for the HomeRF Adapter. Double-click on the TCP/IP entry.

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