Re: Vista Ultimate 32 SP1: problem w/unidentified network + ICS

I have also tried swapping NICs. Now the WAN is on the Nvidia onboard card,
and LAN on the Realtek 8139 card. It makes absolutely no difference.

I also set primary dns suffix to mshome.net to both machines and it also
makes no diff.

I guess the only solution is to disable MS firewall and use some other FW
product.

Isn't there a way to manually set the network identification? This is a
desktop machine, it is not roaming laptop. There HAS to be a way to disable
the "autolearn location" feature.



"axelm" wrote:

I have removed the wireless bridge. Now the network only consists of a
cablemodem, a Vista box with dual NIC and ICS enabled, a 10/100 switch and an
XP box. Everything is wired.

I still get Unidentified network. I already tried diagnose, uninstall,
rebooting, etc.

What's the next step? It would really help to know how the kernel identifies
a network? DNS suffix?

Please advise.

Thank
Axel

"Barb Bowman" wrote:

running sniffer would help. you could certainly give your family
peace of mind by buying a new router. there are/were alot of Super G
routers out there based on the same chipset. I know D-Link and ZyXEL
had some. But I also suspect that a newer N router with an Atheros
chipset would be backward compatible and give you something to use
in the future.

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:42:01 -0700, axelm
<axelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Barb,

Thanks for your input. I have thought about getting a new edge device, but
the Trendnet pre-MIMO router has great coverage and I already have matching
wifi cards with the same Atheros Velocity chipset. Too bad I lost the WAN
port in a thunderstorm, which BTW also killed 2 DVD players and an OpenBSD
box.

The Trendnet device is still useful as an Ethernet-Wifi bridge. I used it
for more than a year when my home network had a Linux firewall/router/server
and XP Clients. Now I am moving my main desktop from XP to Vista, but this
Unidentified network problem disconnects the rest of the machine from the
Internet every time I reboot.

I don't mind resetting it, but sometimes I travel for several weeks and my
wife and kids will not have Internet if there is a power failure or a Windows
Update+reboot.

Are you saying that the unidentified network problem would disappear if I
get rid of the Trendnet device? Is there any document explaining how the
network identification system works, or do I have to sniff the Ethernet
packets to see what's going on?

Thanks again,
Axel

"Barb Bowman" wrote:

you really have a bad configuration here.

your best solution is to purchase a new router and use that as your
edge device. the fact that what you have is known to be damaged
means it isn't something worth trouble shooting.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:35:05 -0700, axelm
<axelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There is a wireless router
connected to my Ethernet switch which is providing 802.11 Super G to the rest
of the house. I am not using the wifi router as gateway to the internet
because a lightning screwed up the WAN port. It is only an Ethernet to 802.11
bridge.
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