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2008-08-24 09:53:37
unnamednewbie13
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QWest DSL was down for around the past week, so I got cable. Modem's installed, this computer works online (der).

The other one is getting a 'Limited or No Connectivity' error. The CAT5e I crimped tests out fine on the cable tester and on this rig, and the hub shows activity on both rigs, so scratch that. I've tried to turn the power off on the cable modem and problem PC, and tried starting them up again. Uninstallation/reinstallation of network drivers, disable in bios, boot, uninstallation of drivers, reboot, reboot, enable in bios, installation of drivers fails, as well as repair and trying to set up the problem rig to work off a hub or directly from the cable modem. 'Ipconfig /reset' fails.

The cable modem guy mentioned the installation of a 'signal inhibitor' on the coax wall socket, but that could hardly be the issue when the cable's functional and one computer will work, but not the other or both...

I'm in the process of scouring Google for similar cases, but I've been up for 18 hours and this is cutting into my sleep time. Has anyone else encountered this?

ASUS A8V Deluxe
WinXP SP2

Edit: Found http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta … layLang=en
Downloading to see if it resolves the issue, but it's an old release and should've already been on there.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2008-08-24 09:56:41)

2008-08-24 10:19:19
mikkel
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Got Wireshark? If you do, try capturing with a DHCP filter and check to see if you're being given any DHCP offers. Capture->Interfaces->Options for the appropriate interface->"bootp" without the quotation marks in the Capture Filter textbox.
2008-08-24 12:25:05
unnamednewbie13
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mikkel wrote:

Got Wireshark? If you do, try capturing with a DHCP filter and check to see if you're being given any DHCP offers. Capture->Interfaces->Options for the appropriate interface->"bootp" without the quotation marks in the Capture Filter textbox.
I was about to try that when I got a call back from Comcast. According to the technician, but not the installation guy, I would have to buy more ip addresses to continue using a hub. Sure enough, when he rebooted the modem over the line while I had only the problem workstation hooked up to the hub, it worked. Strange that it did not before when I manually reset it earlier under such a configuration.

Says I could bypass the extra pay requirement with a router. I hate working with them, but as more computers are added here, it's about time that I stop bombarding each console with useless packets. So while I figure out whether they're pelting me with dogshit and if I'll just be on Click! at the end of the month, I'll be at Radioshack (read: Newegg) buying the broadband router that I should've had long ago.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2008-08-24 12:42:21)

 

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