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Check/Renew IP Address under Windows 2000/XP

The following steps help you to verify whether the network adapter
gets an IP address within the DHCP IP pool range (192.168.1.100 ~
192.168.1.150 by default) of the router. If not, you may need to
renew the IP information.

Step 1

Click Run from the Start menu to open the Run dialog box.

Step 2

Type cmd in the dialog box and then click OK.

Step 3

At DOS command prompt, type ipconfig to see the IP
information from DHCP server.

Step 4

If you want to get a new IP address, type ipconfig /release
to release the previous IP address and then type ipconfig
/renew
to get a new one.

3.3 Additional Settings for Wireless Client

If you choose to access the router via a wireless client, also verify
the following:

1.

Make sure your PC is equipped with 802.11g or 802.11b
wireless adapter and has appropriate WLAN card driver/utility
and TCP/IP installed.

2.

Set the wireless adapter to use appropriate TCP/IP settings as
described in previous section.

3.

Launch the wireless adapter’ s provided utility and verify that
your wireless client is configured with these settings:

Operation Mode: Infrastructure

SSID: wireless

Authentication: Open

WEP Mode: Disabled