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January 18th, 2005 21:00
Won't assign IP address
I'm working on a friends system with a wireless connection. It is a Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop using the Truemobile 1300 wireless card and is connecting to a Gnet 22Mbps router.
The router is working fine with the wired connections and provides an IP address for each one.
When trying to establish a connection with the wireless card it will connect and the signal strength is excellent however it will not properly assign an IP address. When I do an IPconfig it reports the IP address as 169.254.82.17 which appears to be a preset default. Trying to renew the IP does not work.
In device manager everything is as it should be with the card showing up without any exclamation marks etc. However in the system tray the icon has the exclamation mark beside it.
This came about after they had played around weith the settings.
Is there anything simple that I should be looking out for or is it better to just reconfigure the connection from scratch by reinstalling the s/w.
Also is it better to use the s/w to configure the connection or let windows manage it. I'd assume the s/w is best but haven't worked with a dell system before. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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volcano11
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January 18th, 2005 21:00
If the computer is running Windows XP SP2, it is best to let Windows manage the wireless connection. The symptoms you describe are typical of those for a corrupt winsock stack. Try running winsockfix for Windows XP from the Here and if that doesn't work try lspfix from Here.
Steve
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January 18th, 2005 23:00
rubyrx
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January 19th, 2005 21:00
I am having the same problem. Just purchased a used inspirion 1100 and reformatted the hard drive and installed all s/w from scratch. I called my isp provider, and the problem seems to be in the wireless network connection status---under support tab, the tcp/ip address type is "locked on Aitomatic Private address" it needs to say assigned by dhcp, but i can't get it to do this. it is not utilizing service pack 2, because i just installed xp pro/ av software and haven't been able to connect to the internet to update my a/v and also update xp with the service pack 2. HELP!!!
as mentioned above, the ping address is 169.254.192.105 ---i can release it, but i can't renew it.
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January 24th, 2005 02:00
volcano11
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January 24th, 2005 03:00
You are correct. If it were a corrupt winsock stack, you wouldn't be able to connect through a wired connection either. Do you have an security features running on the router, like MAC address filtering, WEP encryption, or WPA encryption. If so, either make sure the wireless network adapter and router are configured to be consistent with each other or disable the security features until you get this figured out.
Steve