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From: marc on 19 Jun 2005 19:14
just rebuilt my pc and i cant get the wireless card to acceept or obtain the
ip from the router which acts as dhcp. all was working until i did a fresh
in stall and my laptop is still working. what i get in is address type
"automatic private address" so the pc is assigning the ip. I have tried to
assign manual but it wont work.

I have a wireless netgear card wg311t, and a netgear router. there muxt be
something in the fress install of xp pro sp2 which is blocking this any ideas

From: BobC on 19 Jun 2005 20:13
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:14:01 -0700, marc wrote:

> just rebuilt my pc and i cant get the wireless card to acceept or obtain the
> ip from the router which acts as dhcp. all was working until i did a fresh
> in stall and my laptop is still working. what i get in is address type
> "automatic private address" so the pc is assigning the ip. I have tried to
> assign manual but it wont work.
>
> I have a wireless netgear card wg311t, and a netgear router. there muxt be
> something in the fress install of xp pro sp2 which is blocking this any ideas

Did you reinstall the driver fo rthe network card? Ids the XP firewall
blocking your access?
From: Clark on 19 Jun 2005 21:37
The help and support section says that XP tries to do a normal DHCP IP
address configuration. If the DHCP server can't be reached, after 60
seconds it goes to the alternate configuration tab and does that.

You may already know this, but I have seen other folks with the same message
and did not know why. So it seems your Wireless card is not communicating
with the Router. As Bob said, can you think of anything blocking the
communication? Are you using MAC filtering, do you have a good signal, do
you have enough addresses available for one to be assigned? Any firewalls
in place?

Have you tried changing your laptop's address to see if it will redo the
DHCP? Try changing the range of addresses the DHCP server will give out,
which will force it to redo.

If you can't assign a manual IP address, try setting the alternate
configuration to whatever manual IP address and such and see if it will pick
that up. Of course, if it does, that means it is still not communicating
with the DHCP server.

I might try later to disable by DHCP server to see what happens.

Clark

Are there any logs you could check to see if something is showing up?
"marc" <marc(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> just rebuilt my pc and i cant get the wireless card to acceept or obtain
> the
> ip from the router which acts as dhcp. all was working until i did a
> fresh
> in stall and my laptop is still working. what i get in is address type
> "automatic private address" so the pc is assigning the ip. I have tried
> to
> assign manual but it wont work.
>
> I have a wireless netgear card wg311t, and a netgear router. there muxt be
> something in the fress install of xp pro sp2 which is blocking this any
> ideas
>


From: Steve Winograd [MVP] on 19 Jun 2005 22:12
In article <A0830BE5-44A3-4A6F-80DD-CE1F0C9BEDB3(a)microsoft.com>,
"marc" <marc(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>just rebuilt my pc and i cant get the wireless card to acceept or obtain the
>ip from the router which acts as dhcp. all was working until i did a fresh
>in stall and my laptop is still working. what i get in is address type
>"automatic private address" so the pc is assigning the ip. I have tried to
>assign manual but it wont work.
>
>I have a wireless netgear card wg311t, and a netgear router. there muxt be
>something in the fress install of xp pro sp2 which is blocking this any ideas

Did you specify the right wireless network settings (SSID, encryption
type, encryption key) on the laptop's wireless connection?
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From: Clark on 19 Jun 2005 22:28
Well, I tried it and if I disabled my DHCP server, I got one of the Private
IP address notations. I did not get it until I had released and renewed the
IP addresses for the connection. I then set in the alternate configuration
tab an IP address that I knew was part of my workgroup and the assignment
worked. If my first post shows up, you will know what I am referring to.
(Network connections, properties, tcp/ip,properties, Alternate
configuration.) If nothing else you should be able to reach your router.

Clark

"marc" <marc(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A0830BE5-44A3-4A6F-80DD-CE1F0C9BEDB3(a)microsoft.com...
> just rebuilt my pc and i cant get the wireless card to acceept or obtain
> the
> ip from the router which acts as dhcp. all was working until i did a
> fresh
> in stall and my laptop is still working. what i get in is address type
> "automatic private address" so the pc is assigning the ip. I have tried
> to
> assign manual but it wont work.
>
> I have a wireless netgear card wg311t, and a netgear router. there muxt be
> something in the fress install of xp pro sp2 which is blocking this any
> ideas
>


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