i just got my new Inpiron 8600 with XP Pro and a Intell Pro/Wireless 2100 network card...it WAS working fine for about a day and then it died on me...the network still appears and has a strong signal strength but when i try and actually use the internet it doesn't work...like with IE, it just gives me a "Cannot display" page....after messing around with it for a while, i realized it wasn't automatically detecting an IP address....i tried to /release and /renew, but when i try and /renew it says that it can't contact the DHCP server...but after observing the activity on the DHCP server while i'm trying to /renew, i see that that DHCP server recieves the request for a new IP and tries to send it back, but my laptop just times out with it....i've read people having similar problems, but nothing really exactly what i'm experiencing and definately no solutions to the problem....the only way i've figured to get around it is to just manually input the IP address info, but if i try and have it autodected it never works.....any ideas???? or should i just stick with manually setting it until Intel figures out something is messed up and gives a fix for it??