I have a situation where I am running XP on my laptop and trying to connect to the internet. Even though there is a notification saying I am connected(using LAN), the connection shows that it has sent packets but no packets have been received. Even when I try repair the connection or release and renew the IP address from the DHCP server, it times saying that it is unable to renew the address. All this time it still says there is a connection. And if I can’t get a new IP address lease I am unable to browse the internet. I have disabled the firewall and checked to see if there is anything preventing it from receiving packets but can’t find anything.
