Connecting to network ok, but not getting an IP address...

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"Mike" <mikey117@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:Y7A9d.5782$%e7.5029@fe1.texas.rr.com:

> I've got a Linksys WAP54g & a Sony Vaio laptop with the built in
> wireless. The staus icon shows I'm connected to my network, but I'm
> not getting a ip aggress via dhcp. The firewall is disabled on laptop.
> I've tried ipconfig /release & renew with no luck. I've also tried the
> repair button, but get a message that it failed to renew ip adddress.
> Any suggestions as to what I might be missing?
>
>
>

You can try resetting the TCP/IP stack. I'll assume it's XP since you make
no mention of the O/S.

http://www.petri.co.il/reinstall_t [...] ows_xp.htm

Duane

Archived from groups: alt.internet.wireless (More info?)

Mike wrote:
> I've got a Linksys WAP54g & a Sony Vaio laptop with the built in wireless.
> The staus icon shows I'm connected to my network, but I'm not getting a ip
> aggress via dhcp. The firewall is disabled on laptop. I've tried ipconfig
> /release & renew with no luck. I've also tried the repair button, but get a
> message that it failed to renew ip adddress.
> Any suggestions as to what I might be missing?
>
>
Did you specify a range of addresses to be served on your DHCP server? I
had a similiar experience and the problem was the address range was too
small. I had set 10 addresses and had only 4 machines thinking it would
be more than enough. Occasionally a machine would have problem getting
an IP address from the DHCP server. The problem went away when I changed
the address range to 50 addresses.