I am using a crossover cable to connect two computers, but I can not set up the network because the "Local Area Connection 9" cable is unplugged. I have turned off all firewalls and tried uninstall and reinstalling the network diver,I tried the diagnostics under "link" but get an error message and this makes me wonder if the diver is corrupted. Let me know what you think. thanks Stuart.
Please forgive me if this seems like too much of an obvious question but are you sure that you are checking the right connection? The reason that I ask is that Local Area Connection 9 is a very high number to have reached - meaning that you already had 8 network connections set up before that.
Go into 'Control Panel > Network and Dial-Up Connections' and just check that you don't have any other network connections set up that do show a working link when the cable is connected.
I believe it is number 9 now number 10 because I have deleted it, in attempt to resolve the issue. I only have a phone line and this LAN and high speed cable connect. One thing I just notice is when I
disable the connection and reinable it, it states that it is searching for network addresses then states that the cable is unplugged. Stuart
HI, thanks for your time, I went out and got a linksys router and when I connect it to the PC the unplugged icon went away and the lights for the cable came on. Thanks again and I will return if I have further issues to resolves. Thanks Stuart
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Posted December 29th, 2006 23:00