Hi Kerri,
Did you keep your BN on all the way from the hotel till trying to
connect at home?
When a dhcp address is given out, it is made available to you
with a time limit I think.
So it could be that something, (perhaps the BN), still thinks it
has an IP address.
Regards,
Steve.
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From: Kerri Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Braillenote <[email protected]
Date sent: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:44:08 -0600
Subject: [Braillenote] dhcp issue popping up again
Hi all,
Remember a week or more ago I wrote to the list asking about the
dhcp error I was getting while trying to connect via wireless
card? Well, I said that after a while it was fine again. It
happened again tonight, and I finally think I see a pattern. I
went to a friend's house who has wi-fi also, and connected
successfully via his wep key. Then when I was on the way home, I
saw a few more networks, mostly a hotel and a few other secure
networks. I connected to the hotel network because it was not
secured, just to see if I could get my email, which I did fine.
Then, when I got home, it would not connect to my wi-fi
connection. It gave me the same dhcp error. For those of you
who either do not remember or have not seen this error, it said:
Windows ce networking: dhcp could not obtain an ip address. If
the netcard is removable, then you can remove/reinsert it to have
dhcp make another attempt to obtain an IP address for it.
Otherwise, you can statically assign an address. So I did try to
give it my IP address, and it said it was connected, but then it
wouldn't let me check my email and when I went online, it said,
cannot find server, which I don't know why it would say that
because our internet is working fine.
I think my pattern is this: I have noticed when I go somewhere
and try to find new networks, it messes up when I get home. This
is only the second time I have done this, and the first time,
right after I got home from my dad's house after trying to
connect unsuccessfully to his network, it messed up. Then, it
happened again tonight. I have no idea why it would be doing
this. Do you think that there is some kind of glitch every time
I go to someone's house and connect to another network? I have
heard several people say they have seen this issue, and I even
upgraded to build 28 after it happened the first time, but it
happened again tonight, so I'm not sure what it is. It seems to
be fine after a few minutes, about 30 minutes or so, of being
home. What are your thoughts?
Kerri
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