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winipcfg keeps showing 0.0.0.0

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Felecha

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Something of a rookie at this stuff.

Home network, 4-port Linksys BEFSR41, 4 machines at home, and a hub in my office where I split it to let me add my laptop when I come home. It's worked fine for a month. Today I "can'et browse the network". I've looked with winipcfg, and found that my office machine was set to 255.0.0.0, which has occasionally happened. I've never known what that really meant, but the first time it did, a friend told me about winipcfg and release-renew, and that fixed it, so that's what I do when I have to. I renewed it, and it then could see the others, but still couldn't get into any of them.

My laptop, though, has flipped out to 0.0.0.0, and in the drop-down box it says PPP Adapter rather than the card name. If I set it to the card name, all the numbers are there, and I can even release-renew, but as soon as I say OK, it seems to flip right back to PPP and 0.0.0.0.

I have tried rebooting, I've checked the Network Properties, TCP/IP settings as far as I know about these things, reset the router's brain with the paperclip trick, I don't know what else to try.

 
Small update.

I went into Device manager and looked for yellow circles on the Network Adapter. Found not only the card listed but DialUp Adapter listed, both looking fine. I don't see much prospect of ever wanting to use Dialup Adapter again, I have cable at home and no dialup ISP, so I removed it and rebooted. Now winipcfg shows the numbers right, but the network is still unavailable.

????
 
Are you using your laptop on multiple networks (ie. at home and at work)?

If so, you should be using a program like NetSwitcher.
 
Isn't PPP adapter for your dial up connection? If you have a NIC with an IP address listed when you refresh/renew then you are fine. PPP adapter will have an IP if you are dialed up.
 
I use it at school and home.

At school, the tech guy in the lab showed me how to change the Properties to get on the school network. I switch to Client for Microsoft Networks and reboot when I get to school, and back to Microsoft Family Logon when I get back home. It's been working ok like that for 3 weeks now.

Netswitcher is something like bootmagic, bit for switching network clients?
 
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