is it set for a fixed ip perhaps ? instead of automatically assign. also sw firewalls is a good idea to check fp
At 06:32 PM 8/29/2006, Christopher Klein Poked the stick with: >I need some help here. I got asked to take a look at a laptop today at work. >It's a Dell Latitude 610 with XP Pro SP/2. It's not a hardware issue as we >moved the hard drive to another machine and we had the same problem. > > >The built in wireless works fine. You can login to the domain without a >problem and everything is functional. However, when you plug a live drop into >the built in network port it doesn't work. It detects that a cable has been >plugged in, however, it cannot get an IP address. At first I went to a >command prompt and did an IPconfig. Instead of the usual information, it came >back with a single line response. I don't remember the response at this >moment but it was just a single line. It didn't even have the name of the >network card. > >Since then I have removed/reinstalled the NIC, I unbinded TCP/IP from the NIC, >rebooted, then binded TCP/IP tot he NIC. At this point IPconfig now works. >It comes back with the proper response. However, still no IP address. I >can't repair the connection, and I cannot renew. When I attempt to renew it >goes through contacting the server, then a long pause, then it comes up and >says no network detection, then it re-detects the network connection and >starts the whole process all over again. Every other machine that we attach >to this network drop is fine. Put a different hard drive in the same laptop >and it works fine. I don't know if TCP/IP stack is somehow corrupted? Any >ideas? > >Thanks, > >Chris -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- A mother is not a dust rag.
