Question : Wireless Network Suddenly Stops At "Acquiring Network Address"

I can no longer connect to my wireless network (Linksys BEFW11S4); it just stays at "Acquiring Network Address" forever (no "limited connectivity message" no fake IP assigned) with five green bars for the connection (but no real connection)

There are lots of solutions for this on the web, but they all deal with fixing the problem with a static IP. No one else who has DHCP seems to be having this problem except me, so it's probably a different cause. I've checked the WEP key a million times; it's not that. It's running in infrastructure mode. I've tried using both the Zero Configuration mode and the Dell utility.

Dell 600m w/minicpci Truemobile 1350 card and XP w/SP2

A possible problem is that I upgraded the firmware on the BEFW11S4 to the latest version, 1.45.10, but it still works with wireless on the other laptop.

 Important note: this isn't a problem with the router, actually-- I tried plugging my DSL modem directly into my laptop and I have the exact same problem-- except with the hardwire connection I do get a "limited or no connectivity" message.

-I've tried it with the Windows firewall both on and off. I don't have another firewall.
-The laptop appears on the DHCP Client Table (I know my laptop system name) inside the linksys router config window, with an IP assigned... then it'll disappear if I refresh, then it'll come back if I refresh again, etc.

Also, none of these three helped me, as far as I can tell.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Q_21179994.html
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21184016.html
http://www.pchell.com/support/limitedconnectivity.shtml

Answer : Wireless Network Suddenly Stops At "Acquiring Network Address"

If the winsockfix dosen't do it for you, I would just turn encryption completly off (temp) and see what results you get.

-sean