I purchased a Squeezebox 3 just before Christmas and have been very
happy with it until this week. 

As some background I also have a squeezebox that is connected to the my
slimserver via an Ethernet connection.

The problem I have is that my Squeezebox 3 which is using the wireless
connection cannot connect to the Slimserver.

My wireless is working fine as I have two laptops connecting without
issues. The settings for the wireless are all fine as the Squeezebox 3
appears to connect without problems.

The slim server appears to be working OK as my other Squeezebox
connects fine and works via Ethernet (as does the Squeezebox 3 when I
connect it this way).

This leads me to the conclusion that there is some kind of issue with
the wireless connection using slimserver.

It will go through and appears to connect however if I leave the IP
address to get one automatically from my DHCP server it will not get an
address in the right range. My two laptops are not having this problem.
I can do a release / renew without a problem. I should point out that
my DHCP server is on a W2003 Server which runs slimserver so the
Squeezebox 3 could connect to the wireless without necessarily getting
an IP address. Which I think is the problem. However it does get a
correct IP address if connected via Ethernet (so I don't thing the DHCP
service is a problem).

The mystery deeps when I fix a static IP address in the range. The
Squeezebox 3 appears to see the slim server address as you go through
the settings but once it tries to connect it cycles through two things
– “connecting to slimserver” and “connecting to wireless network”
before it comes up with the usual message that it cannot connect to
slimserver.

I am total confused with this and the only thought I had was that a
recent update to the slimserver software may be causing some conflict
(I have automatic downloads and updates turned on) and am running
6.2.1.

I have reinstalled the slimserver and tried setting everything up from
scratch again but to no avail – have you any thoughts on this.

My guess at this stage is that whilst the wireless network connection
is appearing to connect it is not doing actually doing so. This would
lead me to the conclusion that this could be a hardware fault. Could
anyone either confirm this or suggest any other options that I may need
look at before going down this route.

Thanks for any assistance anyone may be able to offer.


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