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832681 2009-11-23 06:31:00 Hey my parents Acer Travelmate 800 laptop with built in wireless has suddenly stopped getting an ip address from the router (which is the DHCP server). Yet all my other laptops on the same wireless network all get addresses.
What could be going wrong?
nedkelly (9059)
832682 2009-11-23 06:52:00 What OS? wifi I persume? have you tried to repair the connection? Battleneter2 (9361)
832683 2009-11-23 08:19:00 yeah wireless. Xp. Yeah have tried repair connection. nedkelly (9059)
832684 2009-11-23 08:24:00 reinstall the wireless driver GameJunkie (72)
832685 2009-11-23 08:50:00 would the driver really be causing the laptop to not get an ip address?
It use to work right until about last week
nedkelly (9059)
832686 2009-11-23 19:26:00 I assume you are connecting to the access point ok and it says connected?

If yes
go to a command prompt and try

"Ipconfig /release"

then

"Ipconfig /renew"

It still no go reset the IP stack.

From a Command Prompt
"netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt"
Battleneter2 (9361)
832687 2009-11-23 22:39:00 hmm fixed it by turning SSID hiding off nedkelly (9059)
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