Hi everyone,

I'm having some trouble connecting my son's Nintendo DS to my wireless router & think it's to do with DHCP settings.

Here's where I am so far:

Changed the routers security to WEP (DS compatible)

Entered the WEP encryption key into the Nintendo DS.

When attempting to connect to the router, I GET an 'unable to obtain IP address' message on the DS.

The router looks like this:



(note the same IP address)

When I select the 'Unknown-00-16-56-95-93-25' device I get this:



When I select 'configure' I see this:



Continued

The routers other settings:



(configure):



If I manually enter an IP address into the DS to obtain from the router, I also need to manually enter the subnet mask, gateway and DNS (primary/secondary).

How do I find out my primary/secondary DNS?Managed to do it 

Incase someone with the same problem stumbles across this thread:

1. Access ST585 router by ENTERING 192.168.1.254 into your browsers address bar
2. Click on 'Home Network' and select wireless WLAN:



3. Click on 'configure' top right:



4. For the DS, we need to change security to WEP. An encryption code will appear below - this is the code the DS will need along with the SSID. Make sure 'new stations are allowed (automatically)' is set aswell:



Continued5. Now select 'Interfaces' under the 'Home Network' menu on the left and then 'LocalNetwork' as shown here:



6. Then 'configure' at the top right like before:



7. We then add an IP address for the device:



8. Next click on 'devices' to the left under 'Home connection'.

You should see a dsldevice, ethport1 and the new WLAN device represented.

If the new device hasn't appeared, it's probably because you haven't attempted to connect the device to the router with the WEP encryption key. It will appear as something like 'unknown 00-11-22-33-44-55' which you can edit by selecting the device then configuring it as we done before.

For Nintendo DS Wi-Fi settings, just enter the SSID matching the routers & the encryption code & select 'obtain IP address automatically'.

If you get stuck I'll be glad to help...

Sorry for the poor quality in this quick guide, some of those arrows are suspect & I'm not sure about the USE of red!