Laptop cannot acquire network address

[A Baffled User]

I'm on a Windows XP SP3 laptop trying to connect to my own private wireless
network. Over and over it keeps saying that it's acquiring a network
address, but it never succeeds. My router is a Linksys WRT54G. Another
laptop in the house has no problem connecting, and our settings are the
same. I've tried turning off the firewall for the Internet, but it makes no
difference.

If anyone has any ideas, I would be most grateful.

Thanks!

Joan

[James Egan]

Another possibility along with mac filtering on the router is that the
xp machine has it's knickers in a twist.

Perhaps typing "netsh winsock reset catalog" at a command prompt will
resolve the issue.

Jim.

[David Deley]

I had an issue on a Vista laptop (so I don't know if this applies to XP)
where it would connect, and then quickly disconnect, and then search for
awhile and connect again, only to again quickly disconnect. Turned out
it did this if I had the windows firewall OFF. Turned on the windows
firewall and it was happy again. (Sounds like a Vista problem. Vista
trying to "save" you by disconnecting if the firewall isn't on.)

I also often have problems with anti-virus software refusing to let me
connect to the internet until I appease it.

[oneshot...@live.com]

watch out for the rouge software just get spyware doctor and ill give
you a code allright i mean if you still need