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