Networking Mac/AE and WinXP/Linksys WMP54G with Airport Extreme base.

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Here my configuration

- PB17", OS 10.2.6, with Airport Extreme (with latest update)
- A PC, WinXP SP1, with Linkys WMP54G (with latest drivers).
- An Airport Extreme base (Firmware 5.0.4)

Both of the computers find the Airport extreme base but no one want to communicate to each other.

Before I used an ethernet cable and worked fine, I decided to move to airport extreme but now no one want to communicate (even ping doesn't work).

- Tried 'Connect to server' SMB found nothing.
- My PB has a DHCP assigned address set to 10.0.1.2 but the PC (winxp sp1) got 169.xxx.xxx.xxx
- trying to ping to 10.0.1.2 and even trying to ping to the airport base station 10.0.1.1 returns 'timeout' message.
- tryied to enable 'Windows can log in' in account + 'Windows File Sharing'. The Mac suggest an address \\10.0.1.2\myname but using this address under WinXP returns an error that the address is invalid.
- Tried to force the IP address, but didn't do anything.
- I've setup a WEP 40bit because WinXP doesn't seems to support 128bit WEP (Want a 104bit WEP ?).

I've got a printer attached on the airport base extreme, but how do I specify it under WinXP ?

If someone got this configuration or has the same experience !

Searched for tutorial but found nothing that match my case.

Look like the computer can communicate to the Airport Base but does nothing more.

Last thing, after few minutes, the network on WinXP seems to be deconnected (asking to connect again).