Hi John,

I know the router's gateway address & subnet mask, however when I do an
ipconfig I get a physical address of 00-19-7E-77-A7-D4 & no subnet mask and
it also tells me that the media is disconnected, which can't reaaly be true
since it saw the modem.

In any case I manually put the gateway address in anyway but idit didn't dop
anything. I'm really frustrated because I've been working on this on & off
for a couple of days before posting on this forum.

"John" wrote:
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> 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=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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