Whenever I boot up my laptop (or desktop) they both connect to my wireless network, I have internet, but... One stupid little problem I am having. The wireless network icon will sit on the "acquiring IP address" picture.

Even though it has an IP, it will keep doing that with the little circle thing. I have tried a multitude of things, manual IP, turning off the checkmark in the properties of the adapter that says:

"notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity"

I have even tried just using the basic windows wireless software. But nothing works. If I turn off that check mark, it fixes it until I reboot, then I have to turn it back and so on.

Anyone else have this problem? Or possibly have a fix?

EDIT

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i just figured it out

to anyone having this problem, do not disable the "Network Location Awareness" service. that turned out to be the culprit

Edited October 17, 200619 yr by Cygnus

i just figured it out

to anyone having this problem, do not disable the "Network Location Awareness" service. that turned out to be the culprit

Yup.... I had this problem a while back. Same problem - same solution. More reason to not disable services...

lol ah well, im just glad its fixed now.

its really the only problem i have had with disabling services. (i need to disable cuz my laptop's are really slow with XP stock lol)

ah, this could be my problem, but how do I go about turning the NLA back on?

TIA

-=Mark=-

Start->Run.

Type in services.msc. Scroll down until you see the Network Location Awareness service. Right-click for properties. Make sure it's set to Automatic, and then hit Start.

Hope this helps.

Start->Run.

Type in services.msc. Scroll down until you see the Network Location Awareness service. Right-click for properties. Make sure it's set to Automatic, and then hit Start.

Hope this helps.

woot!! that was sure a fast response. I'll let you know tomorrow how things go.

Thanks again

-=Mark=-

Start->Run.

Type in services.msc. Scroll down until you see the Network Location Awareness service. Right-click for properties. Make sure it's set to Automatic, and then hit Start.

Hope this helps.

woot!! that was sure a fast response. I'll let you know tomorrow how things go.

Thanks again

-=Mark=-

Sweet, it worked like a charm. well for a few minutes anyway. then it cut back out. it seems my router went bad. but only the wireless part. bought a new router and all is 100% again.

Thanks once again for the help.

-=Mark=-

Glad to be of help.