Having same problem hooking into LAN. NIC is sending & receiving packets, IP appears to have been assigned, but IE and Outlook don't see network. Have tried "Repair" but also get "Can't renew IP" message. Has happened on three separate networks. Wireless and modem work fine. Anyone have any suggestions?
Use the Broadcom link in my sig below to get the latest driver. If you start cmd.exe and type ipconfig /all and the IP address for the card is 169.254.x.x it is not seeing the DHCP server.
Thanks for the try. It has done exactly what you said, and is not seeing the server. have spoke to dell techs and they say the card is functioning properly and want me to reinstall xp, what a nightmare! Thanks for the effort John
Reloading XP is too drastic - I'd do the driver upgrade first. If you already did a clean install of XP, don't forget to get the latest chipset driver from Dell Downloads.
Dear John;
I upgraded your driver to no avail. Still get the 169. ip and it wont renew. Either I keep on running my PCMCIA adapter or reinstall xp pro-its a nightmare!!
David
You have multiple NICs so I hope that all are configured in different IP networks.
I have wireless + ethernet. Both (but only 1 at a time) connect to the same IP network.
Since installing XP SP2 I have discovered that it is necessary to DISABLE the wireless pci card via the
device manager when I want to use the ethernet interface. Before it was only necessary to disconnect
from the wireless network. It is however only necessary to disconnect the ethernet cable to use the
wireless network.
So there is some change with SP2 in the way that a suitable network interface is selected and an
interface which is not connected to any media is not ignored as one might hope.
My system is a 8500 with integrated ethernet and a wireless mini-pci card
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I upgraded your driver to no avail. Still get the 169. ip and it wont renew. Either I keep on running my PCMCIA adapter or reinstall xp pro-its a nightmare!!
David
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I have wireless + ethernet. Both (but only 1 at a time) connect to the same IP network.
Since installing XP SP2 I have discovered that it is necessary to DISABLE the wireless pci card via the
device manager when I want to use the ethernet interface. Before it was only necessary to disconnect
from the wireless network. It is however only necessary to disconnect the ethernet cable to use the
wireless network.
So there is some change with SP2 in the way that a suitable network interface is selected and an
interface which is not connected to any media is not ignored as one might hope.
My system is a 8500 with integrated ethernet and a wireless mini-pci card