My daughter has an older laptop with 2000 pro (sp4 I think?) on it. It has a wireless card. It had been connecting to our network without any issues. Now it has decided not to. I hve tried the wireless connection and the wired, but it is refusing to obtain an ip address. I can get into the network manully, but there is no internet. It is showing an ip of 169.xxx.xxx.xxx instead of the 192.168.yadda.yadda.

I am now working to connect it to the wireless network. It sees the network, and tries to initialize, but times out while trying to obtain ip address.
In the network connections, it says a network cable is unplugged (for the wireless). However, lights are blinking on the adapter.
In the TCP/IP settings, all are set to obtain automatically, and it is DHCP enabled.
(all other computers on the wireless network are connecting fine)