My my built in card doesn't work at all after adding the wireless card even after removing the wireless card and software for it leaving only what was working before. In device manager nothing is disabled. The card even thinks it is "connected" but nothing is ever recieved on it and gets the "default" windows ip address. I've tried releasing and renewing and the stupid "repair" thing and I never get ip address from my dhcp server. If I give it a static ip address again nothing is ever recieved.
Well...like I said you only can use one at a time. There maybe something in the BIOS doing this would be my only guess at this time, due to some power restriction on the BUS.
Mary, I'd suggest using this utility to rebuild your TCP/IP stack. Unlike jmwillis's suggestion, removing and reinstalling the NIC doesn't work with newer versions of windows (I think since Win2k).
You can do a google of the URL to determine that it's a good utility and not some virus -- it's widely used for fixing flaky network problems such as yours.
Did you happen to un-install Norton Anti-Virus reciently? I know it's a shot in the dark but I actually had a similar problem with not being able to be assigned an IP by DHCP and after some google searching I found that Norton leaves a residual one line entry in the registry that can prevent computers from recieving network access under certain conditions. If so try googling for that (sorry I don't remember the link)... it was totally random, but I did reciently switch antivirus programs and sure enough that fixed the problem!!! eh, computers! ;-)
I have an Inspiron 8200. I had the same problem when I installed a Mini-PCI card. My on board NIC stopped working. It still shows up in the system properties as enabled and functional. Yet when I plug in a cable it does not recognize a network connection.
Having the same problem dynamikz. Talked to Dell Technical Support. Wasn't sure if it was hardware or software. Said something about NetBEUI. Light on the network card is always on even when the RJ-45 is unplugged. Hardware problem?
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You can only have one connection per machine so what's the issue? That is unless your using the laptop as a server which I doubt.
Check the Device manager and just enable and see if the setting holds.
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Mary, I'd suggest using this utility to rebuild your TCP/IP stack. Unlike jmwillis's suggestion, removing and reinstalling the NIC doesn't work with newer versions of windows (I think since Win2k).
http://members.shaw.ca/techcd/WinsockXPFix.exe
You can do a google of the URL to determine that it's a good utility and not some virus -- it's widely used for fixing flaky network problems such as yours.
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Message Edited by dynamikz on 01-08-2004 11:16 AM
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Having the same problem dynamikz. Talked to Dell Technical Support. Wasn't sure if it was hardware or software. Said something about NetBEUI. Light on the network card is always on even when the RJ-45 is unplugged. Hardware problem?
Message Edited by jonnyton on 01-08-2004 07:58 PM