Weird windows problem - NIC changing subnet spontaniously.

[jello]

I have myself and my wife hooked up to our cable w/ a linksys router. About 15 minutes about her card spontaniously decided to default to a weird IP address and a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 and as such obvously can no longer see the router in any software. On the HW side the activity light for her port is now blinking nonstop all the time. I've tried setting up everything for manual ip, but no luck. Anyone have any idea what might fix this?

 

[obenton]

What's the IP address she gets, and what's her OS?

 

[jello]

It was giving 171 something.. dunno exactly, and this is under win98se. Got everything working now.. reseated the card in a different slot and reinstalled the drivers 3 times or so and everything is finally talking again. Although windows insists on putting 2 copies of the card and tcp/ip under the network settings for some reason. Even puts it back when I remove it. <shrug> Just windows flakeyness I so long as it keeps working.

 

[obenton]

The two NICs represent the same NIC in each of the PCI slots. To get rid of the excess baggage, remove both NICs in device manager, and then at reboot the OS will reinstall the NIC in its proper place. This is why you should follow the rule of removing an adapter in device manager before removing it physically.