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Wireless router fails to issue IP address

Aug 6, 2004 12:54PM PDT

My Linksys 802.11b router and four computers with various USB adapters worked fine for months. All of a sudden, two computers failed to connect. They saw a good signal from the router, but would not receive 'packets.' Finally a nice lady at Linksys' tech help told me how to enter the IP manually. Why would XP's "Obtain IP Address Automatically" function suddenly fail?

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Re: Wireless router fails to issue IP address
Aug 6, 2004 1:32PM PDT

The most common reason I'm running into is this. The owner accepted a driver update from Microsoft's Windows Update.

Bob

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Thanks, Bob!
Aug 7, 2004 5:09AM PDT

That makes sense; the computers that work okay have never asked for MS driver updates.