Re: can't connect a dell laptop


"the staring frogs of Southern Iberia" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've posted this problem before with no luck fixing it. I've gotten a new
laptop given to me from my sister in law.It was used by her company for
conducting business. It's a Dell Inspiron 2500 with win 2000 professional
on
it. My problem is it won't connect to my home internet access. I can't
browse the web at all from it when I connect it to my ethernet cable.
The desktop and my other HP laptop have no problem getting
online
using a cable modem and a netgear router. Both the desktop and HP laptop
connect using Cat 5 cabling. Two different rooms in the house.
I've tried connecting the cable to the Dell's ethernet connection
but no joy. The green LED on the connection lights up, a balloon on the
Dell
pops up saying I'm connected at 100mps but the yellow LED flickers once or
twice then nothing. I've tried pinging google etc. and surfing but all I
get
is constant 404's.
The progress bar at the bottom of IE6 climbs slowly then nothing.
What am I doing wrong?
Could it be software leftover from the business apps that is
blocking
the connection? I haven't wiped the drive since it didn't come with a
recovery disk.

BTW, I posted this a few minutes ago on public.win2000.networking but it
seems the newsgroups has disappeared from the MS server.



Win2000.networking has not disappeared from the MS server.
You have in fact multi-posted your query, which makes you
very unpopular because it leads to duplication of effort. Use
cross-posting instead.

A good starting point would be to post the full output generated
by the command

ipconfig /all

when executed on the problem machine and one of the other
machines.


.

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