u'd think they'd set it to auto-sense; tsk! good find.

First of all sorry If I'm not supposed to bump up an old post like this, but I Have exactly the same problem. I have the surfboard sb4100 and the D-link DI-524. My old wired linksys router had no trouble working, but now I'm switching to wireless and and the d-link reouter doesnt want to get an IP from the cable modem. I tried switching it from auto detect 10/100mbs to just 10mbs but that doesnt seem to work. I called D-link customer suport and they were no help basically told me to power everything down wait awhile then start them back up (which i've done plenty of times) He said that the router may be defective and I should return it.
I bought mine online (newegg) so I'm not sure if I want to waste paying the shipping fees to exchange it just to get the same problem.
Occasionaly (twice) i have gotten the router to show that it has an IP from the modem, but it still won't let the connected computers to get on the internet.
Right now I'm goign to try to connect the modem to the linksys then the linksys to the dlink

edit: Alright now I have it working with the modem>linksys>dlink setup, I had to change the wan type on the dlink from 10mbps to 10/100 auto. Basically now I know that the dlink isn't defective. I'd kind of like to use the linksys for something else... this is annoying. btw the dlink is revision e with firmware 5 (dlink site doesn't mention revision e for firmware upgrades).

yeah about this i posted a topic just a little bit ago i think this might be my problem how do u figure out if ur modem is that old and how would i change the setting if that is the problem??

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