I've tried manually setting the ip addresses, but no luck, and i don't believe this is the problem because dhcp will figure out the essid. I want to say it's a faulty wireless card, but it works fine elsewhere. my next thought is that it isn't connected as long on other networks, (a few hours elsewhere, and days here), but rebooting doesn't help. I thought poorly configured router, but i can connect fine with my *nix systems. do you think a new network card is in order?