T i m wrote:

John Rumm wrote:

So this is not a WEP/WPA issue.

And some were so convinced it was. ;-)

well, without "being there" the error messages did hint at WEP

actually connected without any difficulty.

I think we did conclude that it had associated to the wifi last time around

What it does have is a DHCP problem after having authenticated on the
wifi.

that too, hence trying to get the O/P to test static addr last time when
it was getting APIPA

I'd be interested to see if that netbook could connect to that router
with Linux. ;-)

Doesn't really get anywhere if the O/P wants XP ...