Also, to elevate privileges, right click the CMD link or icon and choose
'run as administrator'.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:e5mHLWs1HHA.1484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> Log into the router from another machine while this one is connected and
> see if it can be seen as a connected device. When you plug the ethernet
> cable into the network card, does the indicator light come on? If so, what
> color?
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
> My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]
>
> "Charles" <Charles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FBE12FC7-07C5-4B6A-B1EB-19DAFFE8A03D@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> New Acer laptop with Vista basic. Wired router is a Linksys BEFSR41 V3.
>> Plugged in my cat5 cable and nothing. The internal NIC card does not see
>> the
>> router. Checked the cable and it's ok. Then to check the card, plugged
>> the
>> modem directly in to the card and it saw the modem. So that's ok.
>> Then I checked ipconfig /all and saw that no address was assigned, so
>> there
>> was no reason to do a release and a renew. Frankly, I'm at a complete
>> loss.
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Oh, and just as an aside, when you do an ipconfig /release it says that
>> that
>> command requires "elevation" (my quotes) and shows you to add *Con*,
>> however
>> when you add a space and the *Con* it again says it requires elevation
>> and
>> gives you examples of "Local Area Connection 1" or "Local Are Connection
>> 2".
>> If you add those to the command (without the *Con*) then it says bad
>> command![/color]
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