Wierd Networking problem

[sswingle]

I had a computer here at home on my network. My router here is a D-Link. First I had it working plugged in, and then I also got it working over wireless with a Netgear USB adapter.

I take the computer and plug it into a different network. This one with a Netgear router. I first tried wireless. The computer could see the SSID and connect, but it would keep failing when obtaining an IP address. I then tried a wired connection. Same thing, fail on obtaining an IP address. This is a Windows XP SP2 machine.

The wierd thing is, there are two other computers on this network, one wired and one wireless, and they both work just fine. They are both Windows 98.

Does the Netgear router not like SP2? That is the only difference I see, considering the two 98 machines work, and the XP machine works on a different network.

The Netgear router is the MR814 if that helps.

Any ideas?

 

[Fardringle]

It is possible that the Netgear router's DHCP configuration is set up to only distribute a total of two IP addresses. This would explain why the two existing computers work normally but the third one does not. Log in to the router on one of the working computers and check the DHCP settings to verify that it is allowed to hand out more than two addresses.

 

[sswingle]

Well, I did a hard reset on the router since I didn't know its password, so I really doubt the default settings would only have DHCP set to two computers. Also, when trying to get computer 3 to work, I disconnected it from the first computer so the only computer plugged in was the one that wouldn't work.