Connecting to web

[Guest]

At first this seems easy ... and I thank you for reviewing this and taking
your time to answer.
I have an XP Home laptop. Out of the box, it connected and everything was
fine .. wireless or cat5.
About a week ago it began CONNECTING but not connecting. I disabled
firewalls, and tried a system restore (in case I screwed up some setting
somewhere), but no luck.
I get the proper icon notification and when I do a status, it shows
connected, the speed (100 MPS or 54 MPS) but nothing under 'received'.
Additionally neither Mozilla or IE can actually get on the net.
When using the cat5, I can move about my home network just fine.
What setting am I missing? Why won't this thing access the net?
I have also tried cycling the modem (cable) and Linksys router.
I have also set Internet Options to automatically detect settings. I am not
using any encyption from the router.
I have run Spy Sweeper and Norton Anti Virus and found nothing on either.
Heck, this is only a few weeks old!
Thank you for any help you are willing to provide.

Don in Tucson
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[Guest]

I have solved my own problem -- for other who might encounter this: I
uninstalled and reinstalled both the wireless and the cat5 ethernet adapters.
I noticed, under ipconfig, that neither had a valid address. Upon restart,
XP found them both, and reset the IP addy. All is good here in Tucson now.
(Except we are still a BLUE county)

Thank you.
Don