Acquiring Network Address........a lot

[mtroxel]

Lately when I come up from standby, or from a full boot up, my Atheros a/b/g card can't get an IP address. Just sometimes. If I turn off the wireless card and turn it back on...no help. I have to reboot. Even then that doesn't always work.

I have uninstalled the card, even went to system32\drivers\ar5211.sys and deleted the driver file before I rebooted so as to get a brand new one when it installed itself again.

Its starting to bug me. Anyone seen this or have ideas?

[DaniWurf]

I had that exact problem when I used an Atheros 5005GS based Gigabyte card. Tried to fiddle with every single setting both in the AP and in the T40 but didn't got it to work satisfying.

Switched to a generic (non ibm) Intel 2915 abg card. Works great.

[cmarti]

Are you two connecting to linksys access points??

[mtroxel]

Thanks for trying to help, but I got it fixed. For some reason one day a few weeks ago my Zone Alarm lost all it's settings. Nothing was configured. I got to thinking about that in regards to this problem so I took a look. The loopback 127.0.0.1 wasn't configured in the trusted zone.

Rather than fool around with ZA I just uninistalled, then reinstalled and let it configure itself. Not one problem since the ZA reinstall.