I have tried 3 wireless cards. All 3 are operational in other machines. A Linksys G USB card, a netgear g pci card, and a belkin b pci card. The router is a linksys-g speedbooster, can get exact model of necessary but I doubt it's the cause. The internet works, so does the router, as I use them on 3 other PC's including the laptop i'm writing this on. I am receiving a solid connection, 54MBPS @ 85-100% connection, all very good. It is simply not receiving packets. I have tried setting a static IP on the router, installing the SP2 hotfix for this issue, getting new network and ethernet controller drivers, dropping the firewall, running full network diagnostics and they always keep failing. It is sending packets, but not receiving any. Here is what lets me know it's for sure not the wireless, I plugged it directly into the cable and it still would not connect to the internet. Any suggestions? Email me at [removed to protect from spammers]

I forgot to mention, the machine is a frankenstein. I just put a copy of XP Professional SP2 on it. It has never received internet, it was an old work computer that I put a fresh hard drive in. Not sure if that helps at all. I can usually fix these problems myself, but i'm over 20 hours of trial and error into this so I think it's time to throw in the towel. I will accept any viable suggestions and try them out, if you need anything else let me know here or via email.

After installing XP did you install the Motherboard Chipset Drivers and any other drivers etcetcetc...

I got the drivers for the video, sound, network, etc. I didn't install any motherboard drivers. I'll go figure out what mb it has and find the drivers, install em, and see what happens. I would assume I would have more issues than just this if I didn't do that?

post the results of a ipconfig /all for review

Windows IP Configuration Host Name ...........: ownage Primary Dns Suffix...: Node Type............: Unknown IP Routing Enabled...: No WINS Proxy Enabled...: No Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection 2: Media State..........: Media disconnected Description..........: Intel<R>Pro/100 VM Network Connection Physical Address.....: 00-08-02-B5-B7-77 Ethernet Adapter Wireless Network Connection 3: Connection-specific DNS Suffix : Description....................: Linksys WUSB100 RangePlus Wireless Physical Address...............: 00-1E-E5-DE-D5-28 DHCP Enabled...................: No These are what I put in trying to make it Static IP Address.....................: 97.100.12.65 Subnet Mask....................: 255.255.240.0 Default Gateway................: 97.100.0.1 DNS Servers....................: 65.32.5.111 65.32.5.112 ipconfig /all #2 after allowing it to auto configure DHCP Enabled : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled : Yes Autoconfiguration IP Address :169.254.39.84 Subnet Mask : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway : Nothing.

Autoconfiguration IP Address :169.254.39.84 The above is an APIPA address and what it means is your computer is not contacting the DHCP server. Perhaps it's the device you're trying to connect to that's the problem and not the computer. I say this because it's highly unusual to have both the wired and wireless interface not connect properly. Is anything else able to connect, and get a proper IP and surf the web, to your router either via wired or wireless?