A 169.254.x.x address indicates that you are not receiving a valid IP
address from some other (proper) source. I'd start with your wireless
access point for troubleshooting, as most home users are set-up to receive
Dynamic addressing from their wireless APs at home.

If that fails, shut down both your cable / DSL modem and the broadband
router / Wireless AP. Turn on the Cable / DSL side first, wait a minute,
then turn back on the wireless device. I'd also recommend troubleshooting
with another device to pinpoint the actual problem.

You might also want to follow up in the Vista newsgroups. I've cross-posted
this in a likely one to help get you started.

Hope this helps a bit,
--Ryan

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Ryan Sokolowski
MVP - Clustering
MCT, MCITP x3, MCTS x8, MCSE x2, CCNA, CCDA, BCFP


"Bo Berglund" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 17:15:44 -0600, d3ving
wrote:


Hi all, it's me again (the vista noob)
I was on my laptop last night using my wireless connection, I turned my
laptop off and when I turned it back on, no internet! I did some reading
this morning about it and found out I have a "Bad IP" starting with 169,
I did a command prompt ipconfig /release but got this "no operation can
be performed on bluetooth network connection 3 while it has it's media
disconnected. an error occurred while releasing interface wireless
network connection: the RPC server is unavailable. no operation can be
performed on local area connection while it has its media disconnected"
So I plugged in my ethernet cable and nothing (no internet with that
ether). I did a system restore and got nothing there. Got into safe
mood, nothing. I shut down my Linksys and modem and restarted all my
PC's, still nothing, so I reset my Linksys, nothing, still no new IP,
still no wireless for my laptop.

I am running Vista 64 bit on a Gateway 'P-7801u.'
(http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&srkey=P-7801u)
I have a Linksys WRT54GS V.2
Knowing me I missed something and could really use the help.
''
(http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&srkey=P-7801u)

And in what way has this anything at all to do with Microsoft Virtual
Server??? VS is the topic of this newsgroup, not networking problems
in general. Probably you need to go to a completely different
newsgroup for this.

You again??? What does that mean? There is no reference in your post
to anyone or any other thread or essentially anything that can explain
why you are here....

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)