Acquiring Network Address Nightmare! Help Me! Please! Please!

Al Mirpuri · #1 05-20-2007, 06:31 AM

I secured my wirless network by adding a WPA-PSK then I got a 'acquiring network address' message that would eventually go without making the connection to the wireless. I am using a HP Pavilion with XP SP2 on it using a Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN. The router is a Wireless ADSL Firewall Router DG834G.

I trouble shooted this using a plethora of tips found googling the problem. It is not a DHCP issue, nor a mistyping of the shared secret (Key), I typed the laptop mac address onto the router's web page, I even tried deleting a few windows components. In the end I did a system restore, and unsecured it and resecured the connection but now the 'acquiring network address' message no longer appears but the wireless connection does not...connect.

I have tried all the obvious answers and spent a half day on it with little by way of results.

Does anyone have an answer?

Thanks in advance for any and all replies.

TheTROLL · #2 05-20-2007, 08:08 AM

Does it work with all security turned off?

Al Mirpuri · #3 05-20-2007, 09:49 AM

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Does it work with all security turned off?

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It did originally yes but I unsecured it a second time and it did not...

PLOlover · #4 05-20-2007, 10:43 AM

Sounds like you need to post more info. do an "ipconfig /all" for cmd window or something.

maybe reset your wireless router too.

go to "view wireless networks" and see if you see the router.

bigalt · #5 05-20-2007, 01:20 PM

can you connect by cable to the router?

Al Mirpuri · #6 05-20-2007, 05:58 PM

I had googled the problem and it seemed to have many fixes to it but one that I had tried but dismissed worked.

It was suggested that 'acquiring network address' occurred because the PKA-PSK entered into the router did not match that entered into the AP (laptop). I had tried this earlier but I had generated (on my own not via any kind of generator) a 63 digit key which I obviously had not inputted correctly into either the router or AP. I went back to this fix and put in a simpler key into both router and AP and hey presto: everything works.

Allow me to thank all those that responded. Thank You.

It took a day to figure all this out...