Internet screwed up

[Jeffi0]

For anyone who can help me here... The internet on my computer has died. We have a LAN in our house, and the hub and high speed modem are at my computer. However, I turned it on just now and the internet on mine doesn't work, but is fine on the others. It says a network cable is unplugged, but it isn't. All the cables are in the right places, as I left them last night. I didn't set up the software here, my uncle did, so I don't know if it is configured wrong. But I don't see how it could be since it's worked for months up until now. I tried switching the cables too in case the cat chewed one or something :\

By the way, the problem seems to be something called D-Link DFE-538TX 10/100 Adapter. Not sure what this means or if it matters though.

[ 06-04-2003, 03:40 PM: Message edited by: Jeffi0 ]

[andrewas]

That adapter is your LAN card.

I guess the modem is plugged into the router?

One thing to try is to go into a dos prompt and type:

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

That will reset your LAN card, hopefuly getting it right. Its odd that this should happen though, have you added anything onto the network recently?

[FelixJaeger]

Yup the internet is screwed up.

[Jeffi0]

Thanks andrewas... I tried that but it says no command can be performed on Local Area Connection while it has its media disconnected Nothing has been done to the network recently, unless my sister did it, which she probably didn't because she knows even less than I do.

[slicer15]

Hm...try checking the status of your network card in the Device Manager. Mine was disabled once for no apparent reason...and I had to enable it to get it working again.

[Jeffi0]

The Device Manager says the D-Link thing is working fine. There is also a 1394 Net Adapter that appeared in there, maybe I could use it instead of the D-Link one? I don't know how to do that, though.

[andrewas]

1394 is a firewire port, you wont be able to run a LAN through that unless you buy an adapter.

If the card is saying no media then theres either a cable missing, or the card is damaged. The cable could be loose at the router end rather than the PC end, but you probably already checked that. Try checking the network card in another machine, if the other machine uses the same model its easy enough, otherwise youll need to install drivers for it.

Luckily, network cards are cheap, so if it is dead youll be able to replace it easily enough. Dont pay for an install though, the rates they charge are criminal.

[Jeffi0]

Ok, I switched the cards, and am currently replying to this on my own computer. Thanks guys! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[VulcanRider]

Maybe the driver for the network card needs to be reinstalled? That's happened to me a couple of times, for no apparent reason. I uninstalled/reinstalled the device & was right back in business.