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From: Bob Rich on 25 Nov 2005 18:14
Suddenly can't get the ip address to renew when connecting wirelessly to
internet from old (HP Presario 700) laptop.

Been working fine since got the laptop 6 weeks ago, now the linksys card
software says I am connected to access point, but the internet cannot be
found. Made absolutely no changes to anything, worked one day and not the
next. Try to repair connection and it stops with the "renewing your IP
address". Unfortunately it then tells me to see the person managing my
network to fix, but that's me..... HELP! haha

Linksys router is WRT54G

Thanks for any assistance...

Bob


From: David Taylor on 26 Nov 2005 03:37
> next. Try to repair connection and it stops with the "renewing your IP
> address". Unfortunately it then tells me to see the person managing my
> network to fix, but that's me..... HELP! haha
>
> Linksys router is WRT54G

Power the router off and on again....
From: Jeff Liebermann on 26 Nov 2005 13:29
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:14:08 GMT, "Bob Rich" <bob.rich(a)mchsi.com>
wrote:

>Suddenly can't get the ip address to renew when connecting wirelessly to
>internet from old (HP Presario 700) laptop.

Nice looking piece of junk laptop. I have a customer that went
through two of these under warranty. The problem is that they tend to
overheat. Once we got past the overheated RAM problems by carefully
selecting SODRAM cards, I found that I could cook an egg on anything I
shoved into the PCMCIA/Cardbus slot. Most wireless cards would work
for a while but eventually overheat. The only solution was to turn it
off, let it cool down, and try again. The customer got fed up with
this, and bought a new laptop. If you put some rubber feet on the
bottom of the laptop and get it a few mm above the table, it won't
overheat quite so rapidly.

>Been working fine since got the laptop 6 weeks ago, now the linksys card
>software says I am connected to access point, but the internet cannot be
>found. Made absolutely no changes to anything, worked one day and not the
>next. Try to repair connection and it stops with the "renewing your IP
>address". Unfortunately it then tells me to see the person managing my
>network to fix, but that's me..... HELP! haha
>
>Linksys router is WRT54G

I can't help much on the wireless end because "Linksys card" isn't a
very good description of your wireless client. Standard advice is to:
1. Reboot everything from a power off state.
2. Try connecting to another access point to see if it's the access
point or the laptop that's hung.
3. If you suspect the WRT54G, then take the laptop to a free wireless
hot spot and see how it works there. If it survives, there's probaly
something wrong with the WRT54G. If it also craps out at the hot
spot, it's the laptop.

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