I have 3 desktops, running on a linksys wireless network. No problems for a month. Yesterday, one of the pc's refused to connect to the network. Specifically, it cannot acquire an IP address from my router. I have played with it a good bit (restarts, uninstalled the card, etc) with no luck. I specified an IP address, and it connected to my network... but I had no internet access, even though my computer gave all indication that I was connected fully. Does anyone have an suggestion as to my problem? My other pc running on the wireless network has no issues at all, in fact I'm posting this message using it. I'm stumped (limited, though my knowledge is...lol) Any help is greatly appreciated! Rob PS... I searched the site for about 20 minutes and haven't found a solution yet.. please help!

Well, if you installed the latest Windows XP critical update yesterday, this may be the same problem as you're having: http://forums.techguy.org/t363808.html After you specified an IP address, were you able to ping the router? (If not, I'd say you weren't really connected.) Able to ping another computer? Is your network encrypted? If so, are you sure that you're specifying the correct type of encryption (WPA, WEP, 64 or 128 bit) and pass phrase or key(s)? Terry

Also, did you try shutting the router off for about a minute then turn it back on? My linksys gets flaky and I have to do that. It seems to be a trend with them, the one at my job does the same thing. -Johnathan

Yeah, I've tried resetting the router. And the dsl modem, no luck. I can't figure it out. I'm gonna keep trying though! Thanks for the help so far guys! Rob

Hi Rob, I had the exact problem. I have a Linksys WAG54G with a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. My other laptop with a Linksys PC card worked fine but my Dell just would no obtain an IP address. I was stumped! Although I found when I reset the Linksys router back to factory defaults, I was able to connect again with DHCP but as soon as I turned WEP security on, I got the same problem, my wireless card could not acquire a IP address, it would show the active wireless network and that I was connected but no IP. There was no way I wasn't going to have any security so I tried WPA and guess what - this worked! I have no idea why the wireless network worked for months on WEP and then suddenly didn't but I think it had something to do with a Windows update sometime in May. Give this a go and good luck. Chris