Connected with limited access

I have a DLink DIR-655 and it was working great until this past week it started disconnecting on and off (just my laptop), the connection from the 655 to my deskop (not wifi) is perfectly fine. The display icon shows an x while I am connected and it says limited access. I updated the intel card drivers on the xps 1530 and i have already updated 655 firmware. What settings do I look for? I am using windows vista ultimate 32bit, dell xps 1530 laptop.

 

Go to your command prompt and type in IPconfig /all

Post back the results.

 

here it is ipconfig /all:

Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

C:\USERS\MIKE>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mike-PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet
Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-15-C5-86-8C-F6
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1D-E0-79-80-21
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::7414:3166:82e5:25cf%8(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.198(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.{6B5D918D-A96A-4B4F-9215-6D3FAA4A8
2FB}
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.{3DED62FE-CC36-456B-B2BE-726F39E8A
E57}
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

 

First off, you've got DHCP disabled - unless you have a good reason for turning off DHCP you should re-enable it on both laptop and router because it makes networking work much more smoothly.

Second, you should go into the properties dialogue of your wireless card and disable IPv6 (which shows both for your NIC and for the 3 tunnel adapters that have been established). Unless you have a known need to use IPv6 it should be disabled because (i) it can interfere with the proper functioning of IPv4 on networks that are not set up to deal with IPv6, and (ii) it can present a security back-door because a lot of security software is not set up to scan IPv6 traffic for malware.

Incidentally, I'm going to guess that, when you check in your router's admin webpage, you'll find that DHCP is enabled on the router - my guess is that when you updated the firmware for the router, it reset the DHCP function to be enabled (assuming you had it disabled originally).