RE: Getting an IP Address

Pam--

Beleive it or not, I have been having the identical problem. Also happened
after I replaced a motherboard. I am using the same Verizon Westell router
and that is working fine. No problem connecting to the internet. My
daughter's laptop connects to it with no problem and no special setup. But
the computer with the new motherbaord, which uses a wireless card to connect
to the Verizon router, won't. Same error message when I tried
ipconfig/renew. "RPC server is not available."

I'm not that experienced with networking problems. Could you explain in a
little more detail what you did to achieve "a working LAN with an internet
connection." That's all I really want to do, anyway.

FYI--I did email microsoft support last night about the problem. I tried
one thing they suggested which didn't work, but if something they suggest
works, I'll be sure to share it with you.
--
DAB

"Pam" wrote:

> fyi - changing for dhcp to static addresses got me at least to a working lan
> with an internet connection.
>
> Thanks to those that tried to help - and if anyone knows what might cause
> dhcp to simply not work I'd be interested to know.
>
> "Pam" wrote:
>
> > I posted about a week ago and followed everyone's advice - I didn't solve it
> > yet - been down many roads - but I realize I was biting off too much. Walk,
> > then run.
> >
> > I'm trying to take a simple step and connect one computer to a router and
> > get an IP address. I get a status of 'acquiring network address' on the lan
> > connection. The router is a Westell Versalink from Verizon for DSL. The DSL
> > connection works fine.
> >
> > ipconfig/all looks like this:
> >
> >
> > Windows IP Configuration
> >
> >
> >
> > Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Delldesktop
> >
> > Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
> >
> > Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
> >
> > IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> >
> > WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> >
> >
> >
> > Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 5:
> >
> >
> >
> > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
> >
> > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet
> > Adapter(LNE100TX v4)
> >
> > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-41-24-B7-94
> >
> > Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
> >
> > Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
> >
> > IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
> >
> > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
> >
> > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
> >
> > DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
> >
> >
> >
> > PPP adapter Verizon Online 2:
> >
> >
> >
> > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
> >
> > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
> >
> > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
> >
> > Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
> >
> > IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 70.111.181.160
> >
> > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
> >
> > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 70.111.181.160
> >
> > DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 151.197.0.39
> >
> > 151.198.0.39
> >
> > NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
> >
> > An ipconfig/renew command produces:
> >
> >
> > Windows IP Configuration
> >
> >
> >
> > An error occurred while renewing interface Local Area Connection 5 : The RPC
> > server is unavailable.
> >
> > I have tried using a linksys wrt54g rounter instead of the Westell - same
> > result
> > I have tried using the integrated NIC in my motherboard (that was the first
> > try, disabling it and installing the curent linksys nic card was after that)
> > - same result
> >
> >
> > TCP/IP properties are:
> > - optain ip address automatically
> > - optain dns server address automatically
> >
> > I have tried winsockxpfix and netsh winsock reset catalog
> >
> > It may be useful to know that the motherboard was recently replaced - but
> > everything else works fine!
.

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