Acquiring network Address

[steve55]

Hi All,

We have a 2wire business hub with 2 PC's connected wirelessly and one on a cable.  cable PC is OK. one wireless PC is OK internet emails ect is all working so I assume the hub/router is working fine, but the other wireless PC is continuously "acquiring network address" i have stopped & Started the wireless card cleared the wep key and retyped it loads of times removed the hub from the list and searched again and gone through the proccess of setting up again but nothin seems to work, has any body got an answer? thanks

[MHC]

Have you tried it with all wireless security turned off?     Does it still have the problem?    If not,  start from there and work up from basic WEP to see where it fails.

Have you updated the drivers for the network card?

When it is trying to connect does the hub show it connected at any time?

Can you check to ensure you have not accidentally given teh laptop a fixed address which is outside the local net?  

[steve55]

Hi,

Have switched off firewall & W..S essentials with no success,  in the router it does not show it as connected. I have run the hub installation disc again it goes to connected with a tick then the wep key never gets accepeted, it then goes to manual config enter the 233 then the wep key and still no joy.  it seems to point to the wep key not being reconised by the hub, the key does work because i've retyped it into another pc which works!

[MHC]

I will comment "You did what!" the installation disk is not actually required and can cause more problems that it is worth.

I would suggest accessing teh hub and defining your own security key,  and then doing a manual configuration on the two PCs with the same key.