Wireless Internet Problem

[lancer player]

Last night I bought a router/acess point and a USB wireless card. Everything worked fine and I was able to acess the internet wireless throughout my house. This morning it will not work. Nothing was touched or altered in any way. I had 3 computers in the network before I switched to wireless. Those 3 computers are still not wireless. I recently got a laptop and wanted wireless capabilties. So with the laptop I have 4 computers in the network. With the new wireless router all the 3 computers acess the internet, but the laptop does not. The icon on the toolbar says:
"Connected to network: linksys"
"Network type: acess point"
"Encryption: off"
"Transfer rate: 54Mbits/sec"

Next to that is the icon of the computer screen and it says:
"Wireless connection 6 (linksys)"
"Speed: 54 Mbps"
"Signal strenght: excellent"
"Status: acquiring network adress"

It was working fine the other day. I reinstalled the software for the USB wireless card twice and nothing was fixed. What is wrong and how do I fix it?

 

[apj101]

try restarting the router (can be done by depressing the restart button on the back, or by pulling the power).

Most routers have a disconnect timeout that disconnects the internet if there is no 'activity' for more than xxx time (this option can be disabled in the routers config pages)

 

[Trizoy]

make sure it is compliant b/g.. meaning the router is either b/g or both... and the laptop is also. Also check your local ip pool size. the router has enough ips to assign.