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    Interesting Network problem

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Aivyn, May 16, 2006.

  1. Aivyn

    Aivyn Notebook Consultant

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    Hey all, yesterday I ran into an interesting problem just wondering if anyone else has run into it as well and may have an idea what's going on.

    On another laptop I reformatted reinstalled drivers and all of a sudden the router that I am on would not send the computer any information :confused: I know that it is not the network card because at work is where it was formatted and updated so the card works fine. I changed ports and tried other laptops...they all work on all of the ports. Anyone had a similar problem?
     
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  2. lmychajluk

    lmychajluk Notebook Evangelist

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    Disable the wired ethernet adapter?

    Did you intall SP2 for Windows? I think you need it to use anything >64bit WEP encryption.
     
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  3. Aivyn

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    yep SP2 is on, tried disabling and re-enabling the card. im guessing its a router issue
     
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    You might want to check in the settings of the router. Also, depending on how you setup the network and wizard you might have to power-cycle the router. I know this seems odd, but alot of people forget to do stuff like that. :p

    Don't ask me why, but when I have to do something to the network settings on my laptop and I go to get back on the network, I have to restart my router. :p
     
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  5. Aivyn

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    alright, thanks USAFdude02 I will try that in a few hours when I get home
     
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    What I meant was disable the WIRED network connection and leave it disabled so that the laptop is not trying to use that connection as the default.
     
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    this is from the wired connection. the wireless is disconnected and disabled. I also tried removing all drivers and only installing the wired network adapter to no avail
     
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    UPDATE - restarted the router and everything went fine and dandy. seems like a strange solution but hey, whatever works right? thanks for the help
     
    Aivyn, May 17, 2006
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    The main reason that this happens is the router assignes the IP to the MAC address. Once you re-set-up the network, it changed what the IP was, so that MAC address had an IP conflict. Once you restarted the router it resolved that conflict. Glad I could help. :p
     
    USAFdude02, May 17, 2006
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