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>> DSL modem -> Linksys Router -> patch panel in basement -> computer room
>> upstairs -> local hub -> four computers
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> You're still using a HUB? Or do you mean switch?
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>> I used to have DHCP but the router kept double-assigning addresses at
>> times.
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> This is troubling. Does it still do this? If so then there's plenty of
> reasons to be HIGHLY skeptical of the network setup. Just because some
> other boxes "work" doesn't mean there isn't something else wrong.
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>> On the laptop, I have tried several times to create a completely new
>> connection using the wired adapter but cannot find out how to start
>> any sort of wizard to do that.
>
> Disable the adapter in the device manager, the remove it. Reboot and
> allow it to set it back up again. It may be advantageous to also delete
> that interface from the registry in-between the removal from the device
> manager and the reboot.
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>> When my wireless A/P is working, I can connect wireless just fine,
>> but when I turn the wireless adapter off
>
> Turn off, how?
>
> Here you may have driver issues with the wireless interface. What
> make/model/version is it?
>
> Also, since this is a laptop, does it have trouble maintain connections
> when the machine goes to sleep or when waking back up from standby or
> hibernate?
>
> -Bill Kearney
>
> Hi Bill. See my answers to Malke. There is a button right on the
computer panel next to the power switch that turns off (actually it
'disables') the WLAN adapter. It goes from green (0n) to orange (Off).
The router DHCP agent would occasionally assign a just-booting computer
an address of one of my other computers. When I troubleshot this odd
occurrence, I found that the assigned IP address was usually that of the
computer that had been on the longest. Some of my computers stay on for
weeks at a time and just renew their leases. By flashing the firmware
of the router that problem was eliminated but I had already shifted to
static IP addresses. My motto - if it works don't mess with it, but if
it doesn't, find out why.
I read on a forum about another person having this similar problem and
he solved it by disabling then removing the wired adapter using Program
Manager. Then cut/pasted the drivers to his desktop for safekeeping.
After rebooting, he found that Vista had assigned one of Microsoft's
drivers to the adapter and he had no more problems. I may try that next
if this arrangement (uninstall and reinstall of NVIDIA drivers) works.
My laptop has had no wireless problems with dropout or with
sleep/hibernation. I can put it to sleep and wake up and the adapter
connects right away. I went into it's settings and didn't allow the
computer to 'put it to sleep' under any circumstances. Maybe that helped.
I guess what is bothering me the most is that there isn't TWO separate
connections I can set up for network access - one for wireless and one
for wired. Every time I try "set up a network" the first thing it tells
me is that there are no wireless networks available. Well, who cares?
I want wired.
All this hassle will go away once I get a new Wireless Access Point. My
old one started heating up badly.
GP