"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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On 22/12/2010 10:52 PM, Jo-Anne wrote:
With your prodding, I tried again to get at least the laptop connected
wirelessly--and I succeeded. (I needed to input some numbers from the
bottom
of the router. Why, I don't know, since it had been working properly til
around mid-November.)

However, I still can't connect with the netbook. What's happening at this
point is that although I appear to be connected to my own wireless
network,
I'm stuck at "Acquiring network address." I opened Network Connections,
double-clicked on Wireless Network Connection, and the Status is always
the
above. Packets are being sent and received, but I'm not connected. Any
idea
of what I should try next?

Thank you!

Some wireless adapters don't seem to support every form of encryption,
even though all options are presented to you as if they are supported. For
example, some adapters don't support WPA2, but do support WPA1. Some
support only either the AES or the TKIP encryption under WPA, but not
both. Others don't support any WPA at all, and only support the older WEP
encryption.

I'd suggest going back to completely unsecured wireless, test it out. If
that works, then go slowly up the sophistication chain, try WEP next, then
WPA1 and then WPA2. You might have to reboot the netbook between tests to
get it to recognize the new security settings. If you find that it works
only under WEP, but not under WPA, then you'll be stuck with WEP. WEP is
not great security, but it's better than no security at all.

Yousuf Khan


Thank you, Yousuf! The confusing thing is that the netbook worked fine with
this router for about a year. It's only recently that it started giving me
trouble. Question: How would I go back to completely unsecured wireless?
Where do I start? In fact, as I just asked Paul, is there a way to start
over from scratch? I know that I managed to connect the netbook to my router
wirelessly when I bought the netbook. If I can start over, maybe I can get
back what I lost.

Jo-Anne