are you getting a 192.0.0.x address or is it a 169.0.0.x??

"cacho" wrote:

> I have a laptop with windows XP home edition that doesn't connect to the
> internet, the wireless card connect to the wireless network picks up a dhcp
> address but cannot browse the internet, I cannot ping any address like
> yahoo.com. Also when I connect the laptop to the wired network using the
> builtin network adapter, it also picks up an address from the dhcp server,
> but cannot access the internet, the firewall on winxp is turned off, I took
> this laptop to a different network and I have the same response.
> Any ideas of what needs to be done or why this is happening?