Thanks GTS, but as I said to John I've been on this for a couple of days and
I've searched the KB so I already came across that reg change and tried it.
But hows this for fun. Vista takes the change but when you reboot it changes
back. Same thing with the NIC card. Went into device manager, figuring I'd
try deleting the card....not a chance! Before you can close device manager
it's back!! If only I could have gotten this laptop with XP.........
"GTS" wrote:
> See Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or from
> certain non-Microsoft DHCP servers
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us
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> "Charles" <Charles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FBE12FC7-07C5-4B6A-B1EB-19DAFFE8A03D@microsoft.com...
> > 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!
>
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