Wireless Connection problem

philng

i have switched my desktop on tonight unable to connect to my wireless vodafone broadband connection. It says limited or no connectivity- it says The network did not assign network address to the computer .

How can i fix this?

timbim_2

Is this a wireless connection to a router or a mobile broadband dongle? If the former, try resetting the router, by unplugging, leaving for about 10sec and then plugging back in again.

ucc

If you click on the icon which says "Limited or no connectivity" and select "Repair" does that work or have you tried it already?

Also, it might sound silly, but the whole turning it off and on again really does work with these things!

philng

None of this has worked so far. I have switched on and off router & switched on & off computer. But the issue remains. Everything was working last night & our laptop is working through the same router?

timbim_2

Do you know your WEP/WPA key? If so, you could go through the process with that again.

musicman100

philng wrote: »

i have switched my desktop on tonight unable to connect to my wireless vodafone broadband connection. It says limited or no connectivity- it says The network did not assign network address to the computer .

How can i fix this?

I get this problem all the time. To solve it I turn off the firewall then do repair then turn the firewall back on again.

Maybe this could be your problem?

Hope that helps.

Nigel

philng

Sorry how do you turn off the firewall?

musicman100

philng wrote: »

Sorry how do you turn off the firewall?

Have you installed your own firewall?

If not then windows xp/vista have their own one built in.

If you do not installed one go to ' Start' then 'Control Panel' then 'Security center'
That should list 'firewall'

Click on firewall under 'manage security settings' and you should be able to turn it off there.

Hope that helps.

Nigel

philng

Have managed to turn off firewall but the repair fails as unable to reniew ip address?

and yet the network is working on both our other 2 laptops?

aliEnRIK

Have you tried in SAFE MODE WITH NETWORKING?
if it works in that then something is conflicting (Or you have something nasty residing)

GunJack

...OR..you need to reset winsock stack on the pc...

go to start, run, type cmd to get the command prompt..

type "netsh reset winsock catalog " without the quotes, and hit enter

you will have to restart the pc, but then the router should be okay to assign IP address to it again...