Mobile laptop not picking up ip address

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havenlad - 31 May 2006 12:53 GMT

A customer is putting his laptop in a hotel and wherever he is, his laptop
will not pick uo the ip address. The hotel give him a spare laptop which
picks it up fine. Also the laptop seems to randomly fail to get onto a
insecure wireless network, despite the network being present. When user is
online finally, he is unable to get onto the internet but can get onto the
intranet

HEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP

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Jack (MVP-Networking). - 31 May 2006 15:38 GMT

Hi

In order to connect wirelessly a client computer must have the same setting
as the Wireless source. It seems that "lame" computer Wireless is not
configured to work with the Hotel settings. Compare the Hotels Laptop
Wireless Setting to the guest computer and set it to be identical.

If this process did not help check the TCP/IP parameters as well.

Jack (MVP-Networking).

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SendRossMail@gmail.com - 31 May 2006 16:06 GMT

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I cannot believe how many times I have seen this same limp advice..."It
MUST be the settings"...

Yet a cursory search of the internet finds a host of people with the
same problem. I am one of them.

My laptop used to connect to my wireless router just fine. Now it does
not. No settings have changed on either the laptop OR the router. I
have another computer that connects to the wireless router just fine so
it's not likely to be the router OR router config.

I have removed and replaced the wireless card drivers, used both MS
Zero config and the manufacturers config prg and still no joy. It find
the network but will not acquire an IP address. (after trying for 3-4
minutes).

Clearly something in the laptop, but what? (Wireless card works fine in
another laptop...)

I suspect this is an XP glitch, but MS isn't copping to it yet since it
appeared after the last round of 'security patches'.

I'm open to suggestion but don't hold out much hope at this point,
short of a clean install.

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havenlad - 31 May 2006 16:07 GMT

thanks for the reply

which settings are you referring to?

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