9fingers
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Background, I have a home network set up with 4-5 PCs on it connected by a mixture of ethernet and wireless and all working well and has been stable for sometime. I use Win xp home and find no need to change.
Today I dug out an old Dell CPI laptop and reformatted the disc and did a clean install of win xp sp1a. So far I have not done the updates to SP3 as my problem is very basic.
The Laptop does not have an ethernet socket so I have put a PCMCIA ethernet10/100 card in (Xircom REM56G-100)
I have checked on the intel/Xircom site and it confirms the card is supported by drivers contained in XP.
When it boots up it finds the card and shows it under network connections. Despite the TCP/IP properties being set to find an IP address automatically, when connected to my router, it comes up with IP address wildly different from the range issued by my router. When I ask it to repair the connection, it says the hardware is working fine by fails to get an IP address at all.
Using the same port on the router and the same cable, another (newer, not PCMCIA socket but integral ethernet) laptop will connect properly.
SO router & cable seem fine. Old laptop is behaving as expected, Network card reports as OK but no connection is made.
Help!! I just can't think what I'm doing wrong...... or what to try next.
Bob
Today I dug out an old Dell CPI laptop and reformatted the disc and did a clean install of win xp sp1a. So far I have not done the updates to SP3 as my problem is very basic.
The Laptop does not have an ethernet socket so I have put a PCMCIA ethernet10/100 card in (Xircom REM56G-100)
I have checked on the intel/Xircom site and it confirms the card is supported by drivers contained in XP.
When it boots up it finds the card and shows it under network connections. Despite the TCP/IP properties being set to find an IP address automatically, when connected to my router, it comes up with IP address wildly different from the range issued by my router. When I ask it to repair the connection, it says the hardware is working fine by fails to get an IP address at all.
Using the same port on the router and the same cable, another (newer, not PCMCIA socket but integral ethernet) laptop will connect properly.
SO router & cable seem fine. Old laptop is behaving as expected, Network card reports as OK but no connection is made.
Help!! I just can't think what I'm doing wrong...... or what to try next.
Bob