Intermittant 'Acquiring Network Address'

7 Apr 2005 9:57 AM

Baz

I have a new IBM Thinkpad T42 and a Netgear WG602 access point.

I am working with fixed IP addresses (Not DHCP) and most of the time
everyhing seems fine. I have tied the network down with MAC addresses
and 128bit Shared encryption.

Most of the time everyhting seems fine but occasionally the laptop will
boot up and show a status of 'Acquiring Network Address', it never
changes from this status until I tell the machine to re-connect and
then all is well. The network is showing good strength.

Ideas Anyone?

6 May 2005 9:47 AM

Daniel5555

I have same problem, but with diferent wi-fi access point.

I use IBM T42, Linksys router with wi-fi access point. Computer receives IP
from DHCP. After it boots up everythink seems to be ok. But I'am not able to
access LAN nor internet. When I click repair network connection it stucks on:
'Acquiring Network Address' and the only solution is to boot up the computer
again.

It also happens when I use [Fn + F5] to turn wi-fi card on, the card is on
but it stucks on 'Acquiring Network Address'. After boot up it's ok.

I think it is wi-fi card driver problem, I downloaded the most recent
drivers from IBM but it didn't helped.

It would be grate if anyone knew solution to this problem.

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"Baz" wrote:

> I have a new IBM Thinkpad T42 and a Netgear WG602 access point.
>
> I am working with fixed IP addresses (Not DHCP) and most of the time
> everyhing seems fine. I have tied the network down with MAC addresses
> and 128bit Shared encryption.
>
> Most of the time everyhting seems fine but occasionally the laptop will
> boot up and show a status of 'Acquiring Network Address', it never
> changes from this status until I tell the machine to re-connect and
> then all is well. The network is showing good strength.
>
> Ideas Anyone?
>
>