trouble acquiring network address..wireless

[kimp]

ok ...so i recently moved in with a friend and my laptop (sony vaio xp home OS) wont connect to the wireless internet there . I have used my laptop wirelessly before with no problems. There is a router and only one other laptop and one other desktop in the house. It is saying there is no interference so i dont think that is the problem. I have set it up properly including the ssid and the wap key but it seems to get stuck acquiring a network address...so I went to command mode and did ipconfig/release which works, but times out on ipconfid/renew. I have done ipconfig/registerdns and nothing shows as error in the event viewfinder. when i repair wireless connection it gets stuck doing the same thing...acquiring network address. when i go to view available wireless networks and click on properties of the network i want...everything is set how it should be. There was a couple of days where i was given a license and allowed to access the internet...not sure how that happened. the strange thing was the wirelss icon was always with an X over it even while i was connected and then i would only be online for 5 minutes or so before it would kick me off and i would have to refresh networks and get back online....very random...also sometimes i get the yellow icon over the wireless icon that states limited or no connectivity....but i cant access the internet at all...Im not sure what else i can do or how i can set it up....any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks
kim

Oh yeah...one more thing....sometimes the network shows in available networks and other times it doesnt...the times when i could connect but kept getting cut off...the network never showed. It does show the little antenna thing with the blue circle around it....so its getting a signal...but still noughtta

 

[office politics]

check manufacturer's website for any software/firmware updates for the router.

 

[kimp]

im assuming you mean on another computer since i dont have internet access

 

[ITwannabee]

Same thing happened to my brother's laptop last night... all i did was restarted the router and the modem then everything seemed to be okay... I' m not sure why it's on and off though..

When updating the firmware hope that nothing goes wrong because when i was updating the firmware on my netgear wireless router, the connection got lost. After that, i couldn't access the router anymore by using the browser. I had to toss it and replace it with a new one.. I'm sure it's not common but i thought i'd just throw it in there.