Why won't my wireless card obtain the correct IP address

[Guest]

My home network has four wireless computers all working fine; the fith laptop won't connect to my network because it's grabbing the wrong IP address. The card works in my other laptops. If I put my mouse over the network icon in the sys tray, it says "Wireless Network Connection (RogersNet)" as if it's connected, but I can't access the internet because the IP address is wrong. My IP address is 192.169.1.1 and it keeps locking into 169.254.218.109, which is NOT my IP address

The card works, which I've verified on other laptops, and it says it's connected to RogersNet. Ipconfig /release and Ipconfig /renew gives me "An error occurred while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection : unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.

Since it's a new laptop, I reformatted the drive (last ditch attempt to correct) and re-installed. I got the same frickin' 169.254.218.109 IP address again

I manually put the IP address in there and it still doesn't work

Any ideas?

 

[NewsReader]

Is the PC that you are having trouble with by chance running Windows XP? I
am asking because I have been having network troubles with IP addresses with
Windows XP similar to what you are describing, and it seems like many other
people posting to this newsgroup are also having problems with Windows XP.

It seems that some people are suspicious that maybe one of the last couple
of Windows XP updates broke something. I keep hoping that somebody will
post some type of solution - like a firmware update for a router, or a
Windows hotfix, or something.

My home network has four wireless computers all working fine; the fith

laptop won't connect to my network because it's grabbing the wrong IP
address. The card works in my other laptops. If I put my mouse over the
network icon in the sys tray, it says "Wireless Network Connection
(RogersNet)" as if it's connected, but I can't access the internet because
the IP address is wrong. My IP address is 192.169.1.1 and it keeps locking
into 169.254.218.109, which is NOT my IP address.

The card works, which I've verified on other laptops, and it says it's

connected to RogersNet. Ipconfig /release and Ipconfig /renew gives me "An
error occurred while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection :
unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out."

Since it's a new laptop, I reformatted the drive (last ditch attempt to

correct) and re-installed. I got the same frickin' 169.254.218.109 IP
address again.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

My home network has four wireless computers all working fine; the fith laptop won't connect to my network because it's grabbing the wrong IP address. The card works in my other laptops. If I put my mouse over the network icon in the sys tray, it says "Wireless Network Connection (RogersNet)" as if it's connected, but I can't access the internet because the IP address is wrong. My IP address is 192.169.1.1 and it keeps locking into 169.254.218.109, which is NOT my IP address.

The card works, which I've verified on other laptops, and it says it's connected to RogersNet. Ipconfig /release and Ipconfig /renew gives me "An error occurred while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection : unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out."

Since it's a new laptop, I reformatted the drive (last ditch attempt to correct) and re-installed. I got the same frickin' 169.254.218.109 IP address again.

I manually put the IP address in there and it still doesn't work.

Any ideas?

The 169.254.x.x IP address is the result of a problem on the network,
not the cause of the problem.

Something is preventing the computer from communicating with the
RogersNet wireless network. If the network uses encryption, make sure
that you're specifying the right encryption type and encryption key.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

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[Guest]

WEP is working, the key is correct as is the index key. Like I said, it sees RogersNet and at one point the system even registered in my router's DHCP table. I just don't know where it's getting this IP address that is not from my system. Even after formatting my system and re-installing XP, installing the wireless card driver and popping in the card, once I entered the WEP settings it "locked" into that stupid IP address that is not mine. The card does see another network (my neighbor's possibly?) called DLINK64. Perhaps it's getting an IP address from that one? I don't know...I don't know's who's network it is to even verify.

The OS is WinXP (non-sp1 or ANY hotfixes because I can't get it on the net to add these).

 

[Adam]

Your IP stack got corrupted. Here is the fix. Run regedit
and export your winsock and winsock2 (save them anywhere)
then after both have been exported delete them both and
close regedit. Now get into network prop. click install,
protocal, have disk and browse to c:\windows\inf\nettcpip
(its a hidden file so you will have to enable "show all
files") then reboot. Now go back into network prop. and
you will see that there is no Tcp/ip, click install,
select protocal and select tcp\ip. You will see two of
them, dont select the one with the 6. Reboot and that is
it...happy surffin

-----Original Message-----
WEP is working, the key is correct as is the index key.

Like I said, it sees RogersNet and at one point the system
even registered in my router's DHCP table. I just don't
know where it's getting this IP address that is not from
my system. Even after formatting my system and re-
installing XP, installing the wireless card driver and
popping in the card, once I entered the WEP settings
it "locked" into that stupid IP address that is not mine.
The card does see another network (my neighbor's
possibly?) called DLINK64. Perhaps it's getting an IP
address from that one? I don't know...I don't know's
who's network it is to even verify.

The OS is WinXP (non-sp1 or ANY hotfixes because I can't

get it on the net to add these).