Thank you, yes I have done a hard reset on the router. Also, irgards to the
ipconfig problems it finally dawned on me what elevated meant so I did right
click it and selected run as administrator. Thanks anyway for taking the
time to try and help.

"Mr. Arnold" wrote:
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> "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?[/color]
>
> Have you done a hard reset of the router and then powered it down?
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> >
> > 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]
>
> You have to select the Command Prompt line in Accessories and select Run as
> Administered then the Command Prompt will have escalated privileges to do
> the Ipconfig commands you want to do.
>
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