169.254.42.248

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless (More info?)

fix whatever the connection problem is. that address range is used by
windows when it can not detect that it is on a network. so basically
windows doesn't think it has any network at all when it boots... xp should
detect when the network becomes available and get a proper address, so i
would think you have a problem with your card or built in wifi adapter.

"Jim Slager" <jslager@inameU_NO_WHATcom> wrote in message
news:%23J8UlgZQEHA.2132@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I've been running wifi in my home since January. My WinXP notebook has a
> problem which started as rare but now is getting severe. When I boot it
> sometimes adopts the IP 169.254.42.248 instead of an IP in the range for
my
> router. Originally this happened about one out of ten times but now is
> about 2 out of three times.
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can stop this?
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless (More info?)

When I had something like this it turned out to be two
active DHCP's.

The random setting occurs when one computer is faster than
the other. next time the other is faster than the first.

may be?
regards
hans



Frank wrote:

> I am having the same problem after just about a year of no having problems
> at all.
> When I first got this laptop I was having the problem all the time. It would
> connect sometimes - other times it wouldn't. I searched the internet and
> downloaded a trial copy of a piece of software for configuring a wireless
> connection. I wish I could remember the name of it. The problem went away.
> The only change I could see it made was it un-checked the "Let Windows
> configure your wireless network". I'm sure it made other changes because
> when the trial ran out I deleted it and the wireless still worked fine and
> did ever since.
>
> Recently I was on a vacation and I tried to connect to a wireless AP in a
> hotel and in an airport. I couldn't connect as they were both pay services
> but when I got home the SSIDs were still in my list of Access Points and it
> hasn't worked very good since then..so I think something has changed.
>
> From my limited knowledge of PCs it seems as if the laptop is not getting
> and IP address from the router as running IPCONFIG will bring up the IP
> address you are getting and I understand this is some sort of "internal"
> address.
>
> Usually after screwing around with various settings for a few minutes and
> re-starting it will start working.
>
> MS knowledge base article 834525 seems to address this problem but offers no
> solution.
>
> Others in this newsgroup seem to be having the same problem so I suspect it
> is a Microsoft issue.
>
> "Jim Slager" <jslager@inameU_NO_WHATcom> wrote in message
> news:%23J8UlgZQEHA.2132@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>
>>I've been running wifi in my home since January. My WinXP notebook has a
>>problem which started as rare but now is getting severe. When I boot it
>>sometimes adopts the IP 169.254.42.248 instead of an IP in the range for
>
> my
>
>>router. Originally this happened about one out of ten times but now is
>>about 2 out of three times.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me how I can stop this?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>