Help me get my new laptop on the network
Oct 27, 2008, 4:06 pm
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Help me get my new laptop on the network
OK so I got a new laptop from work.... And I freaking can't get it onto my network. Wired or wireless, even tried a known good wireless card.
OS is XP Pro SP2
Windows Firewall is DISABLED
configured to use DHCP, and yes I tried just manually setting up TCPIP
here's what happens:
The laptop will acquire a network address. Running ipconfig gets me the correct addresses for the laptop, the default gateway, and DNS and the correct subnet mask. I can ping localhost either by name or address. I can NOT ping anything else -- not the router, not my other Windows box -- by name or address. The ping request times out.
I'm baffled, LOL. Ideas of what to check next?
TIA
OS is XP Pro SP2
Windows Firewall is DISABLED
configured to use DHCP, and yes I tried just manually setting up TCPIP
here's what happens:
The laptop will acquire a network address. Running ipconfig gets me the correct addresses for the laptop, the default gateway, and DNS and the correct subnet mask. I can ping localhost either by name or address. I can NOT ping anything else -- not the router, not my other Windows box -- by name or address. The ping request times out.
I'm baffled, LOL. Ideas of what to check next?
TIA
Oct 27, 2008, 5:17 pm
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It is always difficult to analyse a situation like yours without seeing the actual network configuration. It would help to see what ipconfig shows you.
About the ping. Sometime routers don't response to a ping because ping is sometimes missused for Denial of Service attacks.
Is the network address your laptop aquires from the same subnet the router is on? What settings did you use for the manual set-up. For example your router uses 192.168.1.1 on a 255.255.255.0 subnet your laptop has to use 192.168.1.X where X stands for 2-254.
About the ping. Sometime routers don't response to a ping because ping is sometimes missused for Denial of Service attacks.
Is the network address your laptop aquires from the same subnet the router is on? What settings did you use for the manual set-up. For example your router uses 192.168.1.1 on a 255.255.255.0 subnet your laptop has to use 192.168.1.X where X stands for 2-254.
Oct 27, 2008, 5:39 pm
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OK so I got a new laptop from work.... And I freaking can't get it onto my network. Wired or wireless, even tried a known good wireless card.
OS is XP Pro SP2
Windows Firewall is DISABLED
configured to use DHCP, and yes I tried just manually setting up TCPIP
here's what happens:
The laptop will acquire a network address. Running ipconfig gets me the correct addresses for the laptop, the default gateway, and DNS and the correct subnet mask. I can ping localhost either by name or address. I can NOT ping anything else -- not the router, not my other Windows box -- by name or address. The ping request times out.
I'm baffled, LOL. Ideas of what to check next?
TIA
OS is XP Pro SP2
Windows Firewall is DISABLED
configured to use DHCP, and yes I tried just manually setting up TCPIP
here's what happens:
The laptop will acquire a network address. Running ipconfig gets me the correct addresses for the laptop, the default gateway, and DNS and the correct subnet mask. I can ping localhost either by name or address. I can NOT ping anything else -- not the router, not my other Windows box -- by name or address. The ping request times out.
I'm baffled, LOL. Ideas of what to check next?
TIA
Open Internet explorer
Click on "Tools"
Click "Internet Options"
Click "connections"
Click "Lan Settings"
In Lan Settings UNCHECK anything that is checked.
try connecting again. PM me if it works or not. Good luck
Oct 27, 2008, 6:54 pm
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What sort of router are you connecting to? Have you successfully connected other devices to it?
Oct 27, 2008, 7:59 pm
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Fixed it.
It's a 2Wire router from Qwest, btw, and yeah, everything in the world is connected to it. It responds to pings.
Turns out the laptop I have was last used by a developer who put some sort of freaking Tru-Secure thingy into the network stack (checked TC/PIP properties, see the windows networking, QoS, etc, and there was some sort of secure thing checked. I unchecked it.) And it works.
Bleeping devs, LOL :-)
It's a 2Wire router from Qwest, btw, and yeah, everything in the world is connected to it. It responds to pings.
Turns out the laptop I have was last used by a developer who put some sort of freaking Tru-Secure thingy into the network stack (checked TC/PIP properties, see the windows networking, QoS, etc, and there was some sort of secure thing checked. I unchecked it.) And it works.
Bleeping devs, LOL :-)
Oct 28, 2008, 6:50 am
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