My laptop suddenly cannot acquire an IP address. I’ve lost connectivity to our wireless router in the past and had to reboot to reconnect, but this is a new problem. I can’t acquire an IP address at all. My wireless card sees the router and connects just fine, but gives me the old “limited connectivity” message.
Here’s where things get weird. I cannot even get an IP address when I cut the network out of the picture and plug the laptop up directly to the cable modem. I’ve gone so far as to reinstall all of the hardware and reconfigure all of the connections, both automatically and again manually. No dice.
This baby was working fine when I went to sleep last night and is otherwise running fine still. At every step my desktop connects just fine through the same devices that the laptop. No changes were made to the laptop to cause this. Anyone have any ideas? I’m banging my head against the wall here.