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Broadcom 440x 10/100 in a Inspiron 5100 will not connect to home network
My wife bought a Inspiron 5100 from a friend of hers and I completely reformated the hard drive and installed Win XP Pro and loaded all the drivers from Dell website. Device manager is clean no red x's or yellow ?'s. When I try and connect with a cat 5 cable through the Broadcom 440x port on the back I get no lights and will not connect with my linksys router. I'm sure the cable is good, but can not get it to connect and XP still shows network cable unplugged. Am I doing something wrong here, or is there a special way to setup this Broadcom device. I tried looking in the Bios to make sure it was enabled but can't seem to find it there, but it does show enabled in the device manager.
Thanks in advance,
Jay
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November 4th, 2003 20:00
jmandss
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November 4th, 2003 22:00
This thing is strange.. I went into the advance settings of the broadcom through device manager and if I change the speed and duplex from auto to 100 mbps full or half I get a amber light on the back of the computer and when I change to 10 mbps full or half I get a green light. When I check the ip address it is assigned 169.254.120.82 and that is not a regular linksys ip address and will not connect or ping anything. I have the computer connected to a linksys wireless 4 port router that is uplinked from another linksys wired router. I have 2 other computers wired into the 4 port linksys wireless router and they all work fine. This is the only time I have ever had a problem connecting to this router via cat5. The following are my advance settings for the Broadcom can someone please tell me what the heck is going on here..
Advance settings:
802.1p QOS: Disable
Flow Control: Enable
Wake up Capabilities: Wake up frame
The speed & Duplex : settings explained above..
Thanks,
Jay
Duane111
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November 5th, 2003 00:00
Jay, I feel your pain. Sorry I won't be much help, but I posted a rather large acount of my trials with a similar set up yesterday ( My trials and tribulations...Nov 3). I listed many suggestions that I had found searching this forum and other forums. None solved my problem, but one may fix yours. In the event that you find a fix, please post it here so that I might try it also. I am considering returning my laptop to Dell since it is new.
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jmandss
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November 5th, 2003 01:00
Duane,
Thanks for your response, I just went and read your post from yesterday and now I'm glad I did.. You just saved me a night of pain trying to figure this darn thing out. Now I see there is no answer, I also now understand why no one from Dell has responded to our posts. I can't believe they do not have a fix for this... We can't be the only people in the world with home networks. I own 8 computers right now 4 laptops and 4 desktops and have owned about 25 in the past 7 years. I have also fixed many computers for friends and family over the years and this is the first one that I have not just hooked up to my network and surfed away... I have only owned one other dell in the past 7 years and I only owned that one for about 4 days before it went back to them. When my wife called me today to tell me her friend was selling this one, I had my reservations but thought we would give Dell another try. I guess the Dell is no go again.. Come on Dell step up to the plate and tell us how to fix this problem. All we want to do is plug in and surf away.. Should be a pretty easy fix.
Thanks,
Jay
jmandss
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November 5th, 2003 13:00
I just tried the Inspiron 5100 here at my office and it will not work here either... Dell this must be a problem that you guys were aware of what gives? No ideas on how to fix this? If it is a driver issue, you guys should be on Broadcom to fix it ASAP.. Please respond...
Thanks,
Jay
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Message Edited by tentonine on 11-05-2003 07:39 PM
jmandss
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jmandss
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November 8th, 2003 15:00
I still have the problem with my Broadcom 440x and I'm reading more and more post were people are having the same problem. Can someone please get us an answer to what the heck is going on with this Broadcom 440x device. All we are asking for is some sort of answer from Dell. I've spent over 12 hours working on this problem and 3 hours on the phone with Dell and no luck anywhere. Dell wants me to send my computer back for repair because they believe the hardware is bad, yet all diag. test pass. My fear is I'll send my computer back and after 6 days of downtime I'll still have the same problem. We just want someone to tell us if there is indeed a problem with the Broadcom device and WinXP.
Thanks,
Jay
clevymlse
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November 13th, 2003 14:00
yoda_warrior
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November 17th, 2003 09:00
With a static IP address everything works. When using DHCP, no DHCP server can be found.
The DHCP server itself is ok, all other clients get ip addresses, there is only a problem with the broadcom NIC.
I use the Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller, v.3.60, A02 drivers.
Has anyone found a solution yet?
Duane111
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November 18th, 2003 04:00
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HaTheGreat
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November 18th, 2003 20:00
clevymlse
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November 18th, 2003 21:00
yoda_warrior
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November 19th, 2003 08:00
I don't know what messed up my old system.
HaTheGreat
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November 23rd, 2003 18:00