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My moms laptop all of a sudden can't access the network. She says it started
happening after she tried to add a printer (from another computer on the
network) but I dont' see how that could have done anything.
When I came over to see what the problem was it appeared as thought it could
have just been a signal strength issue. It would show the network on the
list of available wifi networks, when clicking connect you'd get that small
window with the animated connection stuff. Then it would just do that for
like 2 minutes and stop and not connect to anything. This was with the
laptop sitting 5 inches from the router. I tried a system restore from a day
before when it was working just fine but that didn't help at all. All the
network settings appeared to be the same anyways.
So,I logged into the router from one of the lan computers changed the wep
key, logged off, then power cycled the router. I then went to the laptop and
updated the wep key. turned it off, turned on the router, then turned on the
laptop again. After booting up, it immediately picked up the network and
connected but it can't access any other computers or the web.
It looks as if it's not dchp'ing correctly or something. in ipconfig /all is
it shows an
autoconfig ip of 169.254.188.109 with a 255.255.0.0 subnet and nothing for
the gateway.
I also tried assigning an ip manually and while that returned no connection
problems it just didn't work. I couldn't see any computers on the network
except my own and I could access the web.
This is one of those cases where I just want to punch the freakin computer.
Thanks in advance.
Please keep in mind I'll have to try anything you suggest later tonight when
I go back over.
My moms laptop all of a sudden can't access the network. She says it started
happening after she tried to add a printer (from another computer on the
network) but I dont' see how that could have done anything.
When I came over to see what the problem was it appeared as thought it could
have just been a signal strength issue. It would show the network on the
list of available wifi networks, when clicking connect you'd get that small
window with the animated connection stuff. Then it would just do that for
like 2 minutes and stop and not connect to anything. This was with the
laptop sitting 5 inches from the router. I tried a system restore from a day
before when it was working just fine but that didn't help at all. All the
network settings appeared to be the same anyways.
So,I logged into the router from one of the lan computers changed the wep
key, logged off, then power cycled the router. I then went to the laptop and
updated the wep key. turned it off, turned on the router, then turned on the
laptop again. After booting up, it immediately picked up the network and
connected but it can't access any other computers or the web.
It looks as if it's not dchp'ing correctly or something. in ipconfig /all is
it shows an
autoconfig ip of 169.254.188.109 with a 255.255.0.0 subnet and nothing for
the gateway.
I also tried assigning an ip manually and while that returned no connection
problems it just didn't work. I couldn't see any computers on the network
except my own and I could access the web.
This is one of those cases where I just want to punch the freakin computer.
Thanks in advance.
Please keep in mind I'll have to try anything you suggest later tonight when
I go back over.