Wireless network continually "Acquiring network address"

[Jon]

Being in 2 places at the moment, I take my laptop with me.

I've got Netgear routers in both places, a DG834G at my home & a newer one at the other place, a DG834PN. Home is the issue.

I can use wireless at the other place no problem. Being lazy & watching tv the other day I wanted to surf while watching so thought I'd turn the wireless on.

Have set it up exactly like the other location, using "WPA-PSK (Wi-Fi Protected Access Pre-Shared Key)" security option.

Whilst at the other location it connects automatically, at my home it just keeps rolling thru the "Acquiring network address" cycle and never connects.

Works okay with a network cable.

Checked the network key is exactly the same.

Done a google, but no help so far.

Any ideas / need more info?



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[wessie]

connect to the router with a cable. Turn off security and see if the wifi will work.

If it works then you obviously need to recheck the security configuration.

If that does not work then leave security off whilst you check other things e.g. check the channels are the same; change to a different channel as your neighbour may be interfering on the one you are using; borrow another laptop to see if it can connect to the network; press the "reset to defaults" button; set up a fixed IP address for the router & laptop

That's all I can think of at the moment. Only reinstate the security once you know the wifi is active.

 

[Mucky Helmet]

Sounds like it could be you have a pool of "authorised" MAC addresses set on the router you can't connect to via wireless. Should be a setting in the Wireless section of the router menu to enable or disable. If you want to keep it enabled, add the laptop's MAC address to the pool and it should allocate an IP address to the wifi card.

HTH

 

[Fanum]

I had the same with mine the other day (though it was a Blackberry I was trying to connect to the home wifi network.)
in the end, I discovered my orange Livebox has a button that does the equivalent of putting a bluetooth device in 'dicover me' mode...i just pushed that, the little light flashed and the BB connected.....

Using your main pc, get into the router's setup (By typing in its address into your browser)
it could be 192.168.2.1 or something very similar....you'll get that from the documentation or google it for your particular router....then from in the setup you may be able to add the laptop and set what access it has etc

good luck

 

[BillN]

Probably not recognising your wireless adaptor

The problem may be that the Security key that you are typing into the wireless connection dialog box may not be being recognised by the system
EVEN though it is the correct info

Open the Livebox, (or router) page in your Browser, 192.168.1.1........or similar

CUT AND PASTE the Security key details from the info on the page, (System information), into the wireless connection dialog box in windows.

Also, as has been said, if you have an assocition button, press that for 5 secs

Good luck