Comments on: Acquiring Network Address

By: dhanudp

dhanudp — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:59:57 +0000

startting the “DHCP client” service worked for me.
wallaaa…….. thanks for the advices…

By: James Gunden

James Gunden — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:43:13 +0000

I suffered this problem too, tried many things in the site. Had a good connection for a month with new wi-fi, then all at once got the dreaded message. Solution for me, actually came from another board – From Rick at Techspot.com:
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Sounds like your TCP/IP might be damaged in Windows.

To fix this, repairing your Winsock might work. You can do so by opening the command shell (Start > Run > cmd.exe) and type netsh winsock reset and restart your computer. This command only works in Windows XP with service pack 2 installed.

Alternatively, you can use a program such as WinsockXP http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html, which makes the process fool-proof.
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I used the command, didn’t download anything and it worked. I also have XP with service pack 3. Thanks to Rick (message was posted September of 2006) and good luck to all!

By: Liverbird

Liverbird — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:34:45 +0000

Most of the time deleting the “wireless profile” and starting over will fix this issue,
Article here shows how to delete wireless profiles in windows xp or vista:
http://mgmcc.forumotion.net/networking-tutorials-f17/removing-an-existing-wireless-profile-t109.htm

Other than that its likely DHCP is stopped/disabled and so should be started and set its startup type to Automatic.
To do that:
control panel/administrive tools/services/locate and click once on DHCP Client, use the panel on the left to start the service, double click the entry to change the startup type, save the changes made.

By: George

George — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:34:58 +0000

Many thanks Chris (7th from top)
After weeks of trying other suggestions, I ran services.msc, wireless connections and found DHCp was disabled, I enabled it and set it to automatic and all was well. (I had previously set WAP password to 6 digits and 4 letters after an expert had told me that 8 digits was not enough even though my router said 8 to 64 characters)
George

By: reinstall tcp-ip

reinstall tcp-ip — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:56:57 +0000

Start-settings-network connections= double click network connections- click properties-click Microsoft TGP-IP-click install

By: Big Homer

Big Homer — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:17:57 +0000

To clarify: I changed the Wireless Router setting to TKIP

By: Big Homer

Big Homer — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:16:59 +0000

I tried everything here to get a client’s laptop to connect. Had the same ‘Acquiring Network Address’ message (0.0.0.0 IP).

Solution was to change the WPA cipher type from AES to TKIP. I guess the internal NIC is too old to use AES (have the latest driver) even though it is an option in the NIC settings.

DOH!

By: paul griffiths

paul griffiths — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:22:41 +0000

turning off tcp/ip has worked for me

By: Transman

Transman — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:04:05 +0000

Martin’s solution worked for me, I found the ASD services were not running. The links to Microsoft fixed the problem. I had to re-install hidden files from the XP disc. Thanks for the web links Martin!

By: Mangal Mistry

Mangal Mistry — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:14:21 +0000

My setup is Windows xp, Livebox – 57F8 supplied by Orange. I experienced the same problem as most people here. I had a Desktop & a Acer Aspire Laptop. Desktop was permanently connected via Local Area Cable. Laptop, I used via Wireless connection. Everything worked fine for years. I never actually powered up or used the desktop for months – in fact I can’t remember using it last. Everything was fine, until I dismantled and threw away the desktop. Just to check, I connected my laptop to the Livebox router via cable and all was fine for a whole day, but next day my Wireless Connection failed. Came up with same error as most people here: “Acquiring network address”. Then that would fail. I tried all sorts of solutions suggested on this forum. With some it would connect for a minute or two then fail. Finally I resolved the problem in the following way: Do the following:
1) Start, Connect To.., Show all connection, Right click on “Local Area Connection, Properties, Advanced (tab). Here make sure th two boxes in “Internet Connections Sharing” are ticked. If not, ten tick them. Click on OK.

2) In a word document, type your WAP key. You can obtain this from you router configuration document – e.g. 4EBBD043AE1442BFCBA216FA14
(Don’t worry – this is not my genuine WAP key)
Make sure it is all in CAPITALS and there are no gaps.

3) Again do this.
Start, Connect to, Show all connections.
This time right click on “Wireless Network Connections”, Properties, Wireles Networks (tab), Livebox – 57F8 (Automatic), Properties.
Now copy & paste the WAP key from your word document, to here in “Network Key” and “Confirm network key” areas. Click on OK.

This worked for me. I hope it works for you too. Good luck.