Don, I had this exact problem with my new ThinkPad R31 that just came. It has WinXP Pro installed. I got it to work just fine with the Cat 5 cable, but then got your error condition when I tried to get IE to work with the wireless conenction. Also, web page at the bottom said "no server found." I called IBM tech support and he had me do the following:
1) go to Start/Run... 2) Enter cmd and hit enter (goes into DOS command mode) 3) type: ipconfig (IP Configuration) Then you see 4-6 lines of text. In my case, I had nofication of a "network bridge" on the first line. This was the problem. Needed to go back to WinXP, to the networks control panel and delete the Bridge, leaving only the wireless (showing connected) and the cat 5 connnection (disconnected). After I deleted the network bridge, he had me return to Start/run, type cmd, then again type ipconfig. This time, I got both a DHCP IP address and gateway IP address. 4) Then he had me type: ping <gateway IP address> this returned the results of 4 pings, which was the right answer. Lo and behold, then I returned to WinXP and IE worked like a champ. <your milage may vary> --jack -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don Hayward Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:00 AM To: Wireless List Subject: [BAWUG] w2k w/ Orinoco 'network cable disconnected' The reception is "Excellent" and the device is "working properly" but I can't get a network connection and w2k gives the error message "network cable disconnected". <rest deleted> -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
