I have an issue with an old laptop I'm trying to fix up. It has an issue with the wireless.
Here are some of the things I know or have tried:
Repair
option in network settings results in "Unable to renew IP address. "- Disabling/re-enabling the connection does nothing.
- The router is a Verizon Actiontec model.
- Resetting the router does nothing.
[ipconfig /flushdns]
,[ipconfig /renew]
and[ipconfig /release]
have no effect.[ipconfig /renew]
results in a "Unable to contact DHCP server" error message.- The DCHP Client service is running and set to automatic start.
- My IP address is
169.254.x.x
, which, from what I've read, means it can't find a DHCP server. - I have tried the following commands to reset the TCP/IP stack and rebooted afterwards:
[netsh int ip reset reset.log]
[netsh winsock reset catalog]
- Other laptops can connect to the wireless network fine.
- The machine is Windows XP SP3.
- There are no firewalls that I know of on the machine.
- The laptop picks up Wi-Fi points just fine, but when attempting to connect, takes an unusually long time to get past "waiting for network to be ready. " That leads into "Acquiring network address" which takes a long time before that, too, fails.
- It connects fine via Ethernet.
I'm honestly stumped. This laptop can't connect to the wireless internet and I'm not sure why. Anything else I can try?