Newbie to the whole networking scene so bear with me. I have seen similiar posts to this one, but I have yet to resolve my issues with those fixes.

Running Windows XP and the HPNA adapter that came with the Receiver. The link lights go active on both the receiver and the HPNA. The ARM note never gets off of Red. The receiver will always list the IP address as 169.254.XXX.XXX s: 255.255.0.0 and g: 255.255.255.255

Half of the time when I go into the ARM on the server, it shows the "autoconfigure" range as greyed out and lists the HPNA adapter as "Network Connection Adapter - packet scheduler" The other half of the time it shows the "Network Connection Adapter" (with out the packet scheduler in its title). I have forced the IP address on the HPNA card to 169.254.0.1 s: 255.255.255.0 and still nothing. The receiver has worked on various occasions but has been dead for three days now. I went thru the ZoneAlarm dibacle and finally added the HPNA adapter as a "trusted" computer and that fixed the problem for a day until I rebooted the computer and lost the receiver again. The ZoneAlarm feature remains unchanged.

I downloaded the mercury V103 software from ftp:\\ftp.diamondmm.com\pub\multimedia\rio\receiver and it did nothing.

I feel like I am missing something very basic. I have seen discussions about missing the DHCP server, and I saw something in on test that showed that the DCHP server had an invalid IP address 255.255.255.255 but I don't remember where I saw it. Sorry.