[ale] Lost wireless on laptop

[Jim Moore]

First how I got here.  Changed from dhcp to static; i.e; reset router 
assigning addresses to desktop and laptop. It worked fine on desktop but 
could never get laptop to connect.  So have gone back and reset router 
to dhcp, again desktop connects no problem, but laptop can't.
If I go to Administration>Network and check eth2 (which is where my 
wireless is set up) it shows the device is working.
Looking at /etc/network/interfaces  I see:
#The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo init loopback

#The primary network interface
iface eth2 init dhcp
wireless-essid  "My wireless network"
wireless - key s: "My tkip key"

auto eth2

This is what happens when I boot up and it gets down to loading the network:

"DHCP Discover on eth2 255.255.255.255 port 67"  This is repeated 4 
times, then a pause and again repeats four times.

Then the message "eth2:NetDev_Tx_BUSY returned
No working leases in persistent database"

Another abnormality which occurs just before it begins the DHCP Discover 
routine is a message appears that it doesn't recognize the tkip key but 
it only gives the last ten characters of the key not the first three 
digits.  My key is 3 digits and then 10 characters.

Any suggestions as to where to start to set all of this straight again?

Jim