Originally Posted by
Lineman
Sometimes the DNS gets messed up.
Open a command prompt. Go to Start, Run, then type CMD and hit Enter.
A new window should appear.
In the window, type the following :
ipconfig /flushdns
Then hit Enter.
The message should say "Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache."
Then try to access the internet, it may now work. That has fixed my problem on several ocassions.
I think he said that he couldn't get an IP address assigned for his laptop, not that he couldn't resolve an IP address.
So I would suggest in the window to type the following:
ipconfig/release
ipconfig/renew