Wireless - cannot acquire IP address. Help!

Dodge777

Dodge777

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Hi all,

I'm having difficulty connecting to the internet on one of my PCs. I'm using a wireless USB adapter (Netgear WG111v3) on Windows Vista. The adapter picks up the network but when it tries to connect, it can't seem to acquire an IP address. The network icon simly says "identifying..." and "limited access".

The funny thing is that I installed the adapter three days ago and it was working fine. It's only today that the problems have started.

So far I've tried:
1) Resetting the BT wireless router - didn't work.
2) Uninstalling and reinstalling adapter - didn't work.
3) Tried the adapter in Windows XP on same PC - same issue as Vista.
4) Googling for hours!

Can anyone please help???? I'm at a complete loss :(
 
If the above doesn't help.....

Try going into control panel > network and sharing centre > manage network connections

Right click on the wireless network adaptor, disable it, then re-enable it.

I have Vista 64 and I sometimes need to do this on my (wired) network adaptor to get access to the net even though I have access to my LAN.

Mike

** edit - Ignore as I missed the part where you said you uninstalled / reinstalled the device which will do the same thing **
 
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My wife's laptop has this problem sometimes, it seems to be sporadic so I'm not sure if it's maybe an issue with the router getting confused when the DHCP lease expires or something. In the end I just assigned it a static ip address together with the DNS servers.
 
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