Wireless LAN

[dbadmin]

I am using Yahoo DSL and I have their Wireless router configured. I have two desktops (XP Prof), one wired and one wireless working without any issue. The problem I have is with my laptop (XP Prof). The LAN setup and TCP/IP properties are all setup for Automatic IP configuration.

When I do ipconfig /release, it says "already released" and for renew, it takes a long time and errors out saying unable to connect to DHCP server.

How could I make the Laptop connect to the network?

dbadmin.

 

[ronspree]

The router should have its DHCP enabled. It should also be able to allocate the required number of IP addresses, that is, it is not restricted to assigning just a few addresses.

Your laptop's WiFi configuration should be set to Infrastructure Mode, and should be able to connect to "Any" SSIDs.

Ron

 

[vipergg]

It really depends on how you have the router configured , if you have WEP configured and a non default SSID and or mac filtering on the router then these all have to match on the wireless nic card settings or it will never pull an address . If everything matches it should automatically pull an address from the router . Of course I have heard XP has some issues with it's zero configuration utility . You could be running into something like this

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63705,00.html