Well -
Just as a follow up -
Some time over the weekend this silly box started blowing its brains out 
completely. The wireless functions stopped working - even weirder - the 
wireless configuration options disappeared from the menus.  I've read 
this complaint from other people.

So I gave up - it had a LOT of functionality and was really cheap -but 
it appears that at least the one I had was a POS.   I boxed it up, it's 
going back to Amazon today.



Steve Hanson wrote:
> Okay - anybody have any light to shed on this?
> 
> I just bought a DI-713p D-link wireless gateway, thinking it'd make my 
> life easier :-).
> 
> Some of it works fine.  I can hook its built-in switch to my machines 
> and I can connect to it from my wireless cards just fine.
> 
> But I can't get an IP address from my ISP.  My DSL service is pretty 
> straightforward - you plug a machine into the DSL modem and set it up 
> for DHCP and in general it's worked just fine. Until I put in this box.
> It never gets a DHCP address.  It tries, but it seems to keep on asking 
> for an address that my ISP won't give it - the log looks like this:
> 
> WAN Type: Dynamic IP Address (2.57 build 3a)
> Display time: Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:41 PM CST
> 
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:38:39 PM CST 192.168.0.2 login successful
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:28 PM CST DHCP:discover()
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:28 PM CST DHCP:offer(64.33.170.129)
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:28 PM CST DHCP:request(64.33.194.246)
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:28 PM CST DHCP:nak
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:32 PM CST DHCP:discover()
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:32 PM CST DHCP:offer(64.33.170.129)
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:32 PM CST DHCP:request(64.33.194.246)
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:32 PM CST DHCP:nak
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:35 PM CST DHCP:discover()
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:35 PM CST DHCP:offer(64.33.170.129)
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:35 PM CST DHCP:request(64.33.194.246)
> Sat 23 Mar 2002 03:39:35 PM CST DHCP:nak
> 
> Eventually it seems to give up on logging, although the DHCP chatter 
> seems to go on forever.
> 
> I've sent in a request to D-Link support, but past experience leads me 
> to believe that they will read me the couple of pages in the lousy 
> manual that apply, and then tell me there must be somethign wrong with 
> my computer.
> 
> Anyway, I'm about ready to box it up and send it back to Amazon.
> 
> And yes, it has the latest firmware revision.  I even tried some older 
> ones.
> 
> 
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