Re: Cannot get IP address from Router DHCP


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In news:1128530369.421509.140920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Efren <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> Hi,
> I set a Home Network a few months ago consisting of a wired desktop
> connected through a D-Link NIC, a wireless Dell laptop using its
> TrueMobile G card and another wireless desktop connected through a USB
> G linksys adapter and using a Linksys WRT54G Router. Everything worked
> fine until two days ago when the wired desktop suddenly stopped
> connecting to the network and to the internet. I did not install
> anything new nor made any changes to the network configuration. The
> LED on the router and the NIC were green suggesting connection but the
> desktop got an autoconfigured IP address instead of the assigned by
> the DHCP on the router and I could not ping the router or any of the
> computers on the network (they were on a differente subnet mask).
> Since this strange phenomenon happened I had tried:
>
> * Assigned an static IP address to the wired desktop; now it can
> access the network and ping other computers on it but I can't ping
> yahoo.com or access the internet from this computer.

Can you ping your DNS server?
What DNS server did you assign? Use your ISP's.

> The wireless have
> no problem at all accesing both services.


Run ipconfig /all in a command line on each computer & compare them. You can
use ipconfig /all >c:\myip.txt to pipe the output to a text file to make
this easier.

> Now, a strange thing is that
> I can ping the router but I cannot get to its web based utility by
> typing its address either on Firefox o IE6. I can do this from the
> wireless laptop without a problem.

Address = IP address?

>
> * Disabled the wireless card on the Laptop and wired it directly to
> the router. It can connect to the router, the network and internet.
> * Bought a new NIC, now a Linksys Network Everywhere (hoping for
> compatibility with the router) and cable and installed it on the wired
> computer. Same problem: autoconfigured address and no access.

Did you try a different patch cable? Different port on the hub/switch?

>
> * Did a hard reset on the Motorola Cable Modem and on the router
> and reconfigured manually the options. No luck either.
> * Disabled and then unistalled ZoneAlarm to test connections. Still
> no internet access. I have now reinstalled it and accessing the
> network through a static IP but I cannot connect to the internet.

See above (re DNS)
>
> So far it does not seem to be related to the router, the cable or the
> NIC card on the wired desktop so I am thinking of a software setting.
> I have run out of ideas of things to try and hope you can help. The
> wired desktop is running W2K Professional and the others XP SP2. The
> wireless network is running with WEP but I have no problem in the
> wireless section of my network, it's the wired the problem.
>
> Thanks for your interest in helping me,
> Efren



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