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To: Guy Gadois who wrote (42573)8/13/2004 12:34:57 PM
From: Graystone  Read Replies (1) of 110653
 
169.254.nnn.nnn
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DHCP Server Unavailable

Hi jon
The DHCP service is going to be a configuration option on the AEBS. You can use the winipcfg command in the Run box on your Dell to check your current setup and release/renew your IP requests.
From the error description it sounds like your Dell has a properly configured network interface card. If the card is running properly it should obtain an address in the 169.254.nnn.nnn range, showing that everything is fine but no routable IP can be obtained because the NIC does not find the DHCP server.
Check your Device Manager to make sure that the USB port is set up properly with no exception (no area with an Other Device heading and an unidentified device). Download the latest USB driver for the SB5100 for your Dell. Here is a link broadband.motorola.com
Check you AEBS to make sure the DHCP is being served over the USB as well as the Ethernet, I am not familiar with the SB5100 but it should have an area to configure the USB port and the DHCP service.
If you can use a USB device on your Dell then the problem will probably be with the SB5100, if you can't, it is your Dell.

Early USB implementations were sometimes buggy in many laptops, like early IBM parallel ports configured to 3BC instead of 378, good luck jon.
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