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My wireless suddenly stoppet working. It can find my SSID and try to connect to it, but it can't get an ip adress from my router.
I feel like I've tried everything. I tried changing my routers configuration back one month where I KNOW the wireless was working.
Same problem.

I tried installing and uninstalling every possible driver on lenovos website for my laptop. I tried to restore xp to another restore point. I tried changing settings in registry and almost every settings in xp that could have something to do with this.
SAME FREAKIN' PROBLEM!

Now I had it. How the **expletives removed by moderator manually ** an this happen like this.
I low level formattet my harddrive, rebuilded it.
Installed XP, installed all the drivers I need.
Same problem!

My lan works great, but when I try to connect to my wireless it sais: Acqauring network adress, and after 2-3 minutes: "Limited or no connectivity" and when I check it, I can see that my laptop haven't been provided with an ip adress.

I tried bringing 4 different laptops into my home... they all work perfectly, and can get online. So it is not my wireless, nor my router that is causing the problem.

Anyone? I am ready to throw this piece of crap out of my window.... Please stop me.

You've lost your mind. What you've done, e.g. low format hdd, reinstall XP and change settings in registry etc, are completely unnecessary.

If you don't cool down youself, you won't be able to think and do anything correctly.

Actually, if you follow just a few simple rules, everything could be back to normal in a minute.

1. reboot

2. open Access Connections and reconfigure your wireless profile (even just retype the wireless key/password).

3. let Windows to repair the wireless connection if you don't use Access Connections.

At last, if you want to throw your "piece of crap" out of window, make sure nobody is outside before you do it. Otherwise you could end up in jail for a very stupid reason.

Do you really think I've formatted my entire drive to solve a problem and not think of rebooting my pc first? Come on.

If you haven't firgured it out yet.. I'll tell ya.

I allready tried those things in the first 5 minutes after I started having problems with my wireless.

I though I woulnd't wirte a novelle with every bit and detail about all the OBVIOUS things I've done to solve the problem..
But it seems like I never take people like you into consideration.
It might have accoured to you that I am a bit frustrated after 2 weeks of problems with my wireless, so stupid comments like

At last, if you want to throw your "piece of crap" out of window, make sure nobody is outside before you do it. Otherwise you could end up in jail for a very stupid reason

They are not necessary.

I am gratefull for your 3 step guide but I've allready tried obvious things like that.
But if you have some other things that might solve my problem I would be gratefull if you would share them

@ Shade: I was very sorry to read your reply to crazyfrog, and that is the reason for this reply. Although you may already know this, I would like to kindly draw your attention to the thread:

[url=http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=14339][color=blue][u]These are the RULES of this ROAD - READ ME NOW[/color][/u][/url] where, in his post of Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:29 pm, BillMorrow (*Senior* Admin!) wrote: 2. The primary purpose of this Forum is to act as an educational forum for the exchange of information for all things Thinkpad. All are encouraged to participate in this information exchange in the spirit of openness and fun. Keeping this place a comfortable and enjoyable place on the Internet to spend your time is strongly encouraged. Emotional outbursts and personal attacks are not.

Years back, this forum has been established by ThinkPad enthusiast, and the forum has since then been made entirely freely available to people worldwide e.g. seeking help or advice – such as you. When someone post a question, or ask for help, other forum members who respond to the question are voluntarily using their private spare time to help. Such forum members help e.g. you – in their spare time, free of charge to you. All they may get – from you – is perhaps a small amount of gratitude, if you are even aware of the help being provided to you? Ask yourself: Would you want to help someone who talks very impolitely at you? Ask yourself: What makes this forum go ’round? Friendliness and helpfulness and politeness and gratitude – or the opposite?

A major reason why this forum works so exceptionally well is that many mature, adult, well-behaved people share their knowledge in a mature, adult, well-behaved fashion. Another major reason why this board is so valuable is the time and effort continuously put in by the Admin’s and Moderators to maintain the high standards. Please recognize and honor all this.

Everyone reading your quest for help can most likely easily sense your frustration. However, and that is the point of this post: You would most likely obtain more help by modifying your language to reflect the above – that you are asking adult people to spend their private (and for many no doubt: Limited, valuable) time to help solve your problem(s), and to share their knowledge with you.

Thank you in advance for considering the above kind advice. I am absolutely confident that you will benefit positively from it. On the short term, as well as in a longer term.

Johan

Please watch your language. I know it can be frustating debugging a problem like this, but cursing is not going to solve anything ... apart from showing you in a bad light.

Some tips for your problems:

1. Fully uninstall access connections and see if you have the same issue with the default windows wireless manager.
2. If so, try reseating your wireless card and see if the problem persists.
3. A faulty wireless card might not be out of the question, so if all else fails, you can try using another compatible card, but that would be my last resort.

Get back to us here and we'll try to solve this issue ...

Oh i even though you mentioned your wireless router is not the issue, try this anyways.

Go and disable the security in your router - test that out.

Upgrade the firmware if one i available.

Give your machine a STATIC ip in TCP/IP config and see if it connects.

SHoTTa35 wrote:Oh i even though you mentioned your wireless router is not the issue, try this anyways.

Go and disable the security in your router - test that out.

Upgrade the firmware if one i available.

Give your machine a STATIC ip in TCP/IP config and see if it connects.

I've allso allready tried that.

Could it be a faulty network card?
And if it, what do I need to do to send it to repair?`
Can I get lenovo to send me a box for it?

Shade wrote:....snip
And if it, what do I need to do to send it to repair?`
Can I get lenovo to send me a box for it?

Call IBM, depending on your country's policy they'll handle the case by either sending you a replacement part or asking you to send the machine to depot.