Do you know the router's gateway address and subnet mask? If yes, do an
ipconfig on your Acer and make sure the IP and subnet mask for the NIC are
in the ballpark and not in IP wilderness. Sometimes it takes time for a NIC
to discover the real gateway. You can add the gatewat in the TCP/IP settings
if you are getting a way-out IP address.

If you IP is in the realm of the router try running cmd and then ping the
router's gateway address.


"Charles" <Charles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FBE12FC7-07C5-4B6A-B1EB-19DAFFE8A03D@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> 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]