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DHCP - Automatic Private IP Address
Name: anindya007 Date: December 26, 2004 at 03:31:08 Pacific OS: Xp Pro CPU/Ram: 256MB
Comment:
I have a Compaq Evo laptop which has a built in LAN card. I attached a D-Link PCI wireless LAN card to my laptop and have DHCP enabled on my wireless router. My LAN card gets an IP address of 192.168.0.100 when i put the cable in, but my wireless LAN card gets an Automatic Private IP Address which is something like 162/169.x.x.x 1 . I know that my wireless router is working fine because i can connect my Acer laptop with it. This WLAN card was working fine till a few days ago. How should I resolve this issue? I have tried uninstalling and installing the card 10 times.... thx Cheers Anindya
Name: seawatch Date: December 26, 2004 at 07:44:18 Pacific
Reply:
I think it might be due to the fact that you have 2 lan cards.
Try disabling the built in one in the bios and see if the other card picks up the IP address.
Larry
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Response Number 2
Name: anindya007 Date: December 26, 2004 at 10:51:14 Pacific
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Previously it used to work fine with both LAN cards.........
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Response Number 3
Name: seawatch Date: December 26, 2004 at 11:04:09 Pacific
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I aaumed that it did. But obviously something changed. Until you can sort it out, it couldn't hurt to disable one of them.
Larry
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Response Number 4
Name: minch Date: December 27, 2004 at 14:28:16 Pacific
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this happened to me. you need to assign ips automatically using dhcp (auto address) and on the next tab enable auto private address not fixed address. make sure dhcp is enabled on the router!
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