I have a home network, 4 port Linksys BEFSR41, 4 PC's and a laptop off a EFAH05W hub. I only understood enough of the instructions to set it up and get it going and wish I knew more. It runs on DHCP, so I just set the properties to "obtain automatically" and it's always worked that way.
My 17 yr old daughter, very nice and responsible, went to a special summer program at a local private school, stayed in a dorm, they have their own campus network. I agreed to let her use my laptop (HP N5470) instead of lugging her desktop, for writing her papers and keeping up with the email etc. I know that she had someone there do something to configure something so it would work with their network, and there was some problem that that helper person was stuck on and I stopped by one evening to look at it, and guessed that since her roommate's was set to a certain default gateway, that might do it, and it did. OK, I expected I would just set it back to good old 192.168.1.1 when she got home.
Now she's home, and something's wrong. When I put in the cable from the hub, there's no little green or amber LED action. I tried all the (Windows 2000) WNTIPCFG tricks I know. When I release all, it says the IP address for {*****} is already released. When I try to renew all, it says
Error
2: Renewing adapter {******}
I tried uninstalling TCP/IP and reinstalling, since the hostname was still the server name at the school. So now only my laptop name is in Host Name. DNS Server is blank, Node Type is broadcast, the numbers are 0.0.0.0 / 0.0.0.0 / 255.255.255.255. I set TCPIP Properties to "obtain automatically" for both. I've reset the router and reset the cable modem.
I can plug the same cable end into my desktop and it works, so I'm sure that cable is good. Plug it into the laptop, no LED.
I have a cable modem connection, so I went to the main router and plugged the cable modem directly into the laptop. It fired up fine and found everything at the cable ISP and I could connect to the internet there. But anything on the other side of the router is no-go.
There must be something, just one little thing
Thanks for any help
F
My 17 yr old daughter, very nice and responsible, went to a special summer program at a local private school, stayed in a dorm, they have their own campus network. I agreed to let her use my laptop (HP N5470) instead of lugging her desktop, for writing her papers and keeping up with the email etc. I know that she had someone there do something to configure something so it would work with their network, and there was some problem that that helper person was stuck on and I stopped by one evening to look at it, and guessed that since her roommate's was set to a certain default gateway, that might do it, and it did. OK, I expected I would just set it back to good old 192.168.1.1 when she got home.
Now she's home, and something's wrong. When I put in the cable from the hub, there's no little green or amber LED action. I tried all the (Windows 2000) WNTIPCFG tricks I know. When I release all, it says the IP address for {*****} is already released. When I try to renew all, it says
Error
2: Renewing adapter {******}
I tried uninstalling TCP/IP and reinstalling, since the hostname was still the server name at the school. So now only my laptop name is in Host Name. DNS Server is blank, Node Type is broadcast, the numbers are 0.0.0.0 / 0.0.0.0 / 255.255.255.255. I set TCPIP Properties to "obtain automatically" for both. I've reset the router and reset the cable modem.
I can plug the same cable end into my desktop and it works, so I'm sure that cable is good. Plug it into the laptop, no LED.
I have a cable modem connection, so I went to the main router and plugged the cable modem directly into the laptop. It fired up fine and found everything at the cable ISP and I could connect to the internet there. But anything on the other side of the router is no-go.
There must be something, just one little thing
Thanks for any help
F
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