Re: Limited or no connectivity message

The "limited or no connectivity" is typical for wireless connections, I
haven't seen it myself on any wired connections. One of your neighbours may
have installed a new unsecured wireless network recently.
When two network connections in the computer are active on the same subnet
they can contend for an IP address. Usually the first adapter enabled by
Windows would win and the second would fall back to automatic addressing.

If you disable the wireless adapter in Network Connections that should be
sufficient. Alternatively you can configure the adapter Interface metrics
(eg 10 for the wired, 20 -wireless) for each to give priority to the wired
connection. In that case also turn off autoconnect on the wireless adapter.

Example here: http://www.ezlan.net/network/metrics.jpg



"dn0460" <dn0460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6544865C-9742-4DB6-A137-FD185D40CF2D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I have 3 PCs on my home network. The 2 desktops work fine and the
notebook
did until the last few days. It is a Dell Inspiron 6000. I have a wired
network (Linksys BEFSR41 router/switch) and the PCs pick up a dynamic IP
when
they start up.

A few days ago we started up the notebook and got the "limited or no
connectivity" message for the first time in almost two years. Since the
other PCs were working fine, I thought that jack might be suspect, brought
the notebook PC to a different jack and it picked up a dynamic IP from my
router. I unplugged, went back to the original jack and the IP stuck.
This
stayed fine for a few days and I thought it was just a fluke. But today I
got the same message again. This time I couldn't get it to pick up an IP
from my router. I tried "repair", "ipconfig /release", and "ipconfig
/renew"
with no luck.

After poking around a bit, I discovered it had picked up a completely
foreign IP address. I checked and found out that it was sensing a weak
wireless network. Is it possible that I'm picking up an IP from a
neighbor's
wireless network that's preventing my own wired network from assigning an
IP?

To sorta test that theory, I assigned a static IP in the normal range for
my
router. I was able to connect to my home network and see files on the
other
PCs. I would have accepted that solution but I still couldnt get to the
internet (or ping outside my own network). So I attempted to disable the
wireless function on the PC (don't know if that really worked) and blocked
an
IP range on the (McAfee) firewall. I went back to DHCP and tried to
restart,
but the bad IP is still coming up, and I'm still getting the "limited or
no
connectivity" message.

I don't think it's the router, since the other PCs continue to function
just
fine. Any thoughts on how to completely disable the wireless function?

Sorry for the long story, but does anyone have any suggestions how to get
the notebook PC to work only with my wired network?

Thanks.
Dan


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