Wireless Connection Unreachable

[Greg McKaskle]

The only reason I comment on the DS source was that in your haste to get the dlink working, your troubleshooting went off-target. Perhaps you should publish whatever source you were looking at so that we can explain what it is. Guaranteed, it wasn't the DS.

Next, it is the troubleshooting that will determine the issue with the communications, so rather than setting it aside, let's set everything else aside, and see what works and what doesn't.

With the dlink configured and powered on the robot, log into as developer and launch the driver station exe. This will let you look at networking and diagnostics while things are running.

As to your initial question about connecting when you don't know the IP. The laptop joins the wifi network being hosted by the dlink. So, go to the Windows wireless system icon and see if your robot's network is listed. It should be the team number. Has the laptop connected? If so, the DS diagnostics tab should have a green light next to one of the radio fields. My suspicion is that the laptop has either not joined the network or has done so with firewall enabled. Work on getting the laptop to join the dlink AP and I suspect your issues will go away. If not, please post what the results of these steps were.

Greg McKaskle