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TCP/IP Settings Not Saved With NIC?
I am having a bizarre problem... or at least one I haven't seen
before. I have just installed WinME on a laptop. I downloaded and installed the latest driver for my 3Com PCMCIA Ethernet card and that worked fine. The card appears as a NIC and with no errors. I went in to the Network section of Control Panel, same as right-clicking on My Network Places, and I manually set the TCP/IP address for the card (IP address, netmask, default gateway and DNS servers). This works fine and whenever I go back in to Network, after rebooting several times, all of the information is stored there correctly. However when I run IPCONFIG my Ethernet adaptors comes up with an IP address of 0.0.0.0, netmask of 0.0.0.0 and default gateway of 0.0.0.0. Of course this means that my Internet connection doesn't work on this machine either as that passes through the gateway (router). I can't ping any where as it appears as though I have no IP address. I have gone back in to the network settings several times, modified the IP address, made sure everything was correct and rebooted several times. The same problem/situation keeps coming back to haunt me. What am I missing??? |
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TCP/IP Settings Not Saved With NIC?
Sounds like a HOSTS file?
Do a search for files named HOSTS - no extension - and see what's inside it. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Derek Erb" wrote in message om... I am having a bizarre problem... or at least one I haven't seen before. I have just installed WinME on a laptop. I downloaded and installed the latest driver for my 3Com PCMCIA Ethernet card and that worked fine. The card appears as a NIC and with no errors. I went in to the Network section of Control Panel, same as right-clicking on My Network Places, and I manually set the TCP/IP address for the card (IP address, netmask, default gateway and DNS servers). This works fine and whenever I go back in to Network, after rebooting several times, all of the information is stored there correctly. However when I run IPCONFIG my Ethernet adaptors comes up with an IP address of 0.0.0.0, netmask of 0.0.0.0 and default gateway of 0.0.0.0. Of course this means that my Internet connection doesn't work on this machine either as that passes through the gateway (router). I can't ping any where as it appears as though I have no IP address. I have gone back in to the network settings several times, modified the IP address, made sure everything was correct and rebooted several times. The same problem/situation keeps coming back to haunt me. What am I missing??? |
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TCP/IP Settings Not Saved With NIC?
HOSTS files normally translate names in to IP addresses. My problem
is that my NIC is not "taking" it's network configuration. The IP addresses are not being assigned to the NIC nor the DNS and Gateway information. However I did go looking for my hosts file and found the standard HOSTS.SAM and LMHOSTS.SAM files in the Windows directory. They contain the standard info (127.0.0.1 = localhost in HOSTS and nothing but comments in LMHOSTS). I am baffled... and stuck... I need to connect this computer to the network to continue the installation and just can't get it to store the IP info... |
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TCP/IP Settings Not Saved With NIC?
(when all else fails....g)
http://www.careyholzman.com/netfixes.htm -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Derek Erb" wrote in message om... HOSTS files normally translate names in to IP addresses. My problem is that my NIC is not "taking" it's network configuration. The IP addresses are not being assigned to the NIC nor the DNS and Gateway information. However I did go looking for my hosts file and found the standard HOSTS.SAM and LMHOSTS.SAM files in the Windows directory. They contain the standard info (127.0.0.1 = localhost in HOSTS and nothing but comments in LMHOSTS). I am baffled... and stuck... I need to connect this computer to the network to continue the installation and just can't get it to store the IP info... |
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TCP/IP Settings Not Saved With NIC?
I found a "workaround" to my own problem. I'm not sure it's a
solution but it works. By playing around, good ole trial and error, I found that by adding the IPX/SPX protocol suddenly the IP information was bound to the NIC and everything works perfectly. |
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TCP/IP Settings Not Saved With NIC?
It's not a solution - IPX is NOT a good protocol to use!
have you looked through Carey's site, yet? -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Derek Erb" wrote in message om... I found a "workaround" to my own problem. I'm not sure it's a solution but it works. By playing around, good ole trial and error, I found that by adding the IPX/SPX protocol suddenly the IP information was bound to the NIC and everything works perfectly. |
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