Re: Wireless Internet Connection - Not working

Checked the driver - it is dated 7/2006, so it does not appear to have been
updated recently. Had also tried reseting the router before posting my
question on the board - did not work.

Two more pieces of info that might be helpful: 1) I am running Windows XP
on all computers, and 2) the 'Main' computer does not see the laptop on the
Network.

Below is the text output of ipconfig /all. What I am noticing is that the
Host Name is Nancytwo - it should be Nancyone (Nancytwo is the laptop). How
do I change this? Maybe this conflict will correct my problem?

Thanks!!



Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Nancytwo
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8187 Wireless 802.11g
54M
bps USB 2.0 Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-C0-A8-CA-12-21
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.213.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :


"Barb Bowman" wrote:

shutdown the laptop. unplug the router and plug it back in again.
wait 60 seconds and then boot up the laptop. if this does not fix
your issue, please check and see if there was a recent driver update
that windows update applied to your wireless NIC. if yes, roll back
the driver/uninstall the update.

it might help if you posted the text output from the afflicted
machine of

ipconfig /all

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:20:03 -0700, Nancy
<Nancy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello~

I currently have a small home network set up.........two desktops connected
to the internet through a router (Netgear) and one laptop connected to
internect wirelessly. Everything working just fine until about 3 days
ago............suddenly I can't connect to the internet on the laptop. Both
desktops working OK.

I have tried to "repair" the connection, done "ipconfig /release" and
"ipconfig /renew". Every time I get an error message "unable to contact your
dhcp server". I have gone in a disable my Firewall (Windows), disabled the
wireless connection, re-enabled the wireless connection, still to no avail.

I have to installed any new programs or hardware on the laptop......any
suggestions on the problem?

Thanks in advance!!
--

Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/

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