"Unidentified Network" after Fresh Install of Win7

So I recently installed Windows 7 x64, and suddenly my wireless connection is no longer working. It worked fine with the previous Vista 64-bit OS. I'm able to connect to a different router, and the internet works fine. However, I cannot connect to my Home router. Other laptops are able to connect to it just fine (running the Windows 7 OS).

I updated the network adapter drivers, reset the router and modem, don't have the Bonjour service at all, updated everything Microsoft had for me, and tried that spoofing Network Address solution. When I try to ipconfig /renew, it freezes and eventually says "DHCP could not be reached" or something along those lines.

After all this it still doesn't work, and I still get the "169" IP address when I ipconfig.

The router is Linksys WRT54GS. My wireless network adapter is Atheros AR9281.

Any suggestions?

foolosophy said:

So I recently installed Windows 7 x64, and suddenly my wireless connection is no longer working. It worked fine with the previous Vista 64-bit OS. I'm able to connect to a different router, and the internet works fine. However, I cannot connect to my Home router. Other laptops are able to connect to it just fine (running the Windows 7 OS).

I updated the network adapter drivers, reset the router and modem, don't have the Bonjour service at all, updated everything Microsoft had for me, and tried that spoofing Network Address solution. When I try to ipconfig /renew, it freezes and eventually says "DHCP could not be reached" or something along those lines.

After all this it still doesn't work, and I still get the "169" IP address when I ipconfig.

The router is Linksys WRT54GS. My wireless network adapter is Atheros AR9281.

Any suggestions?

Hi and welcome

the 169.254.x.x. ip is local to the card so something in either the driver or card is hosed. can you type device manager in search? go to the wifi/lan (network) tab and tell us if the driver is listed, and working. Is there a yellow triangle on it? is there any other "unknown" devices with yellow on them?


Ken J+

SOLVED.

Such an obvious solution too. Makes me feel silly for spending hours on what could have been done in less than a minute.

Just reinstalled the network adapter.