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Title: Tony H junior computer help needed please
Post by: Tony H on 29 July 2007, 14:33:11
Calling all computer experts out there, I know diddly  sh*t about computers so I'm no help. My son is having a problem with his wireless internet connection, can anyone advise please? Over to him for the explanation.
hey there, the problem is that when we bought a new router and laptop, we decided to secure it using WEP because before then we hadnt had any security, anyway i set up the new laptop and a seperate pc to use the new wireless connection no problem using the WEP security and putting the correct passphrase in, like i said these work fine, however my pc doesnt seem to want to let me use the internet wirelessly, i have put into the routers settings to allow my MAC address but when i try to connect, it comes up with "the network could not assign a network address" i have googled this but its not been much help. has anyone had this problem before and/or know how to solve it?

Cheers
Liam
Title: Re: Tony H junior computer help needed please
Post by: Tafty on 29 July 2007, 14:56:14
Is the pc using the same IP address as the laptop - had a similar problem on ours and the desktop was using the same IP address as one of the laptops.
Title: Re: Tony H junior computer help needed please
Post by: TheBoy on 29 July 2007, 23:13:26
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Calling all computer experts out there, I know diddly  sh*t about computers so I'm no help. My son is having a problem with his wireless internet connection, can anyone advise please? Over to him for the explanation.
hey there, the problem is that when we bought a new router and laptop, we decided to secure it using WEP because before then we hadnt had any security, anyway i set up the new laptop and a seperate pc to use the new wireless connection no problem using the WEP security and putting the correct passphrase in, like i said these work fine, however my pc doesnt seem to want to let me use the internet wirelessly, i have put into the routers settings to allow my MAC address but when i try to connect, it comes up with "the network could not assign a network address" i have googled this but its not been much help. has anyone had this problem before and/or know how to solve it?

Cheers
Liam
The error means that it was unable to get response from dhcp server - so either no IPs left in range, or the communication isn't working.

Try with a static IP - if that works, then investigate dhcp issue, if not, still a problem at the physical or datalink layer.


Oh, btw, WEP is insecure. Use WPA if possible ;)
Title: Re: Tony H junior computer help needed please
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 30 July 2007, 09:52:41
Also check if the PC has a static IP address programmed....
Title: Re: Tony H junior computer help needed please
Post by: Tony H on 30 July 2007, 18:21:26
Thanks for the replies guys i'll get him to do what you suggested when he gets in, i'll keep you posted :y
Title: Re: Tony H junior computer help needed please
Post by: RonaldMcBurger on 30 July 2007, 18:35:16
Also, check the rocker gaskets.


Well........ they are normaly leaking aren't they?
Title: Re: Tony H junior computer help needed please
Post by: Baron Von Spongebob on 30 July 2007, 19:39:40
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Also, check the rocker gaskets.


Well........ they are normaly leaking aren't they?

 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Tony H junior computer help needed please
Post by: Tony H on 30 July 2007, 20:12:37
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Also, check the rocker gaskets.


Well........ they are normaly leaking aren't they?
Hadn't thought of that oil on the cpu causing a misfire ;D
Title: Re: Tony H junior computer help needed please
Post by: Tony H on 01 August 2007, 00:26:35
hi its "tony h junior" as he put it, thanks for the help, i have checked the ip and my one wasnt the same as the laptops so i changed it to a static ip n it seems to be working fine now so thanks a lot agen :D
Cheers
Liam
Title: Re: Tony H junior computer help needed please
Post by: TheBoy on 01 August 2007, 09:25:57
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hi its "tony h junior" as he put it, thanks for the help, i have checked the ip and my one wasnt the same as the laptops so i changed it to a static ip n it seems to be working fine now so thanks a lot agen :D
Cheers
Liam
Not exactly same IP I hope!  In most case, changing last octet will suffice....   ....other cases we'll have to start going down tcp/ip theory...
Title: Re: Tony H junior computer help needed please
Post by: Tony H on 01 August 2007, 13:38:30
no not exactly the same, few digits out :P thanks a lot for your help everyone
Cheers
Liam