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howdy, did a forum search for related topics also google a bunch and tried various solutions... my only internet connection on my dell laptop with xp corp pro is my linksys wireless g card i use at free wi fi spots- was working fine until last month when i happened to try using p2p- says limited or no connectivity on my end- the wifi server is fine. when i try ipconfig /renew here's what i get:
an error occurred while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection unable to contact your dhcp server. request has timed out.
so after that i tried various things. tried to manually assign ip and dns numbers but the kicker with that is no dns settings show when i click on network connections option to see what the problem is- when i check dns settings on ipconfig i get it as 1.0.0.127.in.addr.arpa, localhost 127.0.0.1 so i tried the first number for primary dns but that didn't get me anywhere (except that it showed me as connected this time but i wasn't really) my ip showing at this time is 169.254.85.30 so wasn't sure what to put for the gateway so tried 169.254.85.1- didn;t seem to matter.

also tried a winsock fix and that didn't help any

all attempts to renew ip give me the same error- only thing i think i might have missed solution wise is to fix dhcp settings? also i tried ipconfig flushdns which worked and then registerdns but that didn't seem to help

any ideas? much appreciated

ddd