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    How to enable DHCP on wireless card in my Studio 15

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by darrylcn, Feb 1, 2009.

  1. darrylcn

    darrylcn Notebook Enthusiast

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    Was at a friend's place tonight and couldn't connect to her router using DHCP/auto config of wireless settings. Usually that's not a problem since my laptop's almost always at home where I use static IP, but if we're on the road or at a friend's house like tonight, I'd like to be able to connect.

    I ran an ipconfig /all and it says my wireless card doesn't have DHCP enabled but I can't find out where to enable/disable it. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    Thanks!


    Is it automatically turned on or off depending on whether you set it to automatic or choose your own config in the Network Settings? I thought that there'd be a checkbox or something somewhere to specify DHCP on/off but I'm not having ay luck.
    I'm running Vista Premium.
     
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Go to Network and Sharing Center.
    Click Manage network connections.
    Right-click the network adaptor that you want to change to DHCP and go to properties.
    Double-click Internet Protocol Version 4.
    Select so all the radioboxes are configured to automatic (on the General and Alternate Configuration tabs).

    There might be an easier way, but that's the way that I know.
     
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  3. darrylcn

    darrylcn Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yup, that set it to auto, but my router's giving out an IP of 192.169.xx.xx which is outside my subnet so I can't get online.. Hmmm.
     
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    lol I have everything set to automatic on most things, so I personally can't help you there. :p
     
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    darrylcn Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ahhh, got it! In my tweaking of services I set DHCP Client service to disabled. All fixed now. Thanks for the help, it pointed me in the right direction!
     
    darrylcn, Feb 1, 2009
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