vidrsystir

My daughter has an older laptop with 2000 pro on it. It has a wireless card. It had been connecting to our network without any issues. Now it has decided not to. I hve tried the wireless connection and the wired, but it is refusing to obtain an ip address. I can get into the network manully, but there is no internet. It is showing an ip of 169.xxx.xxx.xxx instead of the 192.168.yadda.yadda. Before I toss it through a window, can anyone help me out?
Thanks!

vidrsystir

A little more info:

I am now working to connect it to the wireless network. It sees the network, and tries to initialize, but times out while trying to obtain ip address.
In the network connections, it says a network cable is unplugged (for the wireless). However, lights are blinking on the adapter.
In the TCP/IP settings, all are set to obtain automatically, and it is DHCP enabled.
(all other computers on the wireless network are connecting fine)

vidrsystir

Tried a usb wireless adapter. It connected to the access point, but the internet cannot be found.
I did an ipconfig /release, and got this message:
"All adapters bound to DHCP do not have DHCP addresses. The addresses were automaticlly configured and cannot be released."

Troy_Jollimore

If the laptop has a wired network port, it'd be good to remove the wireless adapter for the moment and test using the 'hard' connection to your wireless router. If this isn't an option, it's just not as easy to 'troubleshoot' wireless issues.

You say her computer was connecting to your network, and the Internet, just fine wirelessly. When did this stop? Were any changes made to your network router, particularly in regards to security settings? Do you run WEP or WPA on the router (These are security protocols)?

The 169.x address is a default Windows takes when it can't get a DHCP address. This is the first step to connecting to your network, and the Internet. It sounds like your router isn't assigning DHCP addresses, so it's either turned off, broken, or has all of it's addresses 'used' up. Someone could log into your router if there's no security and turn DHCP off, and the addresses can get 'used up' if a bunch are assigned and their leases don't expire. You need to use your other PC to login to your router and find out which is the case.

As a quick work-around, you can find out what IP address your other computer has, and manually set your daughter's notebook to another IP address on the same subnet. For example, if your PC shows:

IP Address: 192.168.1.10
NetMask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1

Then set your daughter's up identically, but with IP Address: 192.168.1.11 (or any number between 10 and 254). Then see if it connects.

vidrsystir

Thanks for the response.
I tried just using the hard wired conection. Same problem.
Max number allowed is set to 50. Only 4 are currently showing as connected.
I'm using a MAC address filter for wireless security right now.

I tried the manual settings yesterday (right before I threw up my hands) and was able to access the network, but not the internet.

I think I am going to try rebooting the router next.

vidrsystir

Rebooted router, still nothing. Other comps connecting fine - both wireless and hardwired.

I've tried reinstalling the adapters, tried everything i could think of. Used 2 different wireless adapters. *prepares boot*

vidrsystir

Ended up reformatting, everything works now.