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10-25-2007
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| | Ethernet connection with Vista Before my son took his laptop to a LAN party we could easily switch back and forth between wireless and wired connection to our Linsys WRT54G router. One of the guys at the LAN party changed settings somewhere so they could hook up. Since then the laptop will only connect wirelessly to our home network and I can't figure out how to make a hard wire connection. |
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10-26-2007
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| | Re: Ethernet connection with Vista Can you connect the vista to the router using Cat 5 cable? Also posting the result of ipconfig /all here may help. -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Jo" <Jo@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B1F9D608-4C4E-41AC-8EB1-4E2FDD93B6E9@xxxxxx Quote: > Before my son took his laptop to a LAN party we could easily switch back > and > forth between wireless and wired connection to our Linsys WRT54G router. > One > of the guys at the LAN party changed settings somewhere so they could hook > up. Since then the laptop will only connect wirelessly to our home > network > and I can't figure out how to make a hard wire connection. |
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10-26-2007
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| | Re: Ethernet connection with Vista Thank you but in the mean time I found it. They had set the IPs to a specific address rather than auto. "Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote: Quote: > Can you connect the vista to the router using Cat 5 cable? Also posting the > result of ipconfig /all here may help. > > -- > Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE > Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on > http://www.ChicagoTech.net > How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on > http://www.HowToNetworking.com > > > "Jo" <Jo@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:B1F9D608-4C4E-41AC-8EB1-4E2FDD93B6E9@xxxxxx Quote: > > Before my son took his laptop to a LAN party we could easily switch back > > and > > forth between wireless and wired connection to our Linsys WRT54G router. > > One > > of the guys at the LAN party changed settings somewhere so they could hook > > up. Since then the laptop will only connect wirelessly to our home > > network > > and I can't figure out how to make a hard wire connection. |
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10-26-2007
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| | Re: Ethernet connection with Vista Thank you for the update. -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Jo" <Jo@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:EBDD1041-7C3B-47E4-99B1-4595DFB025CC@xxxxxx Quote: > Thank you but in the mean time I found it. They had set the IPs to a > specific address rather than auto. > > "Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote: > Quote: >> Can you connect the vista to the router using Cat 5 cable? Also posting >> the >> result of ipconfig /all here may help. >> >> -- >> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE >> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on >> http://www.ChicagoTech.net >> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on >> http://www.HowToNetworking.com >> >> >> "Jo" <Jo@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:B1F9D608-4C4E-41AC-8EB1-4E2FDD93B6E9@xxxxxx Quote: >> > Before my son took his laptop to a LAN party we could easily switch >> > back >> > and >> > forth between wireless and wired connection to our Linsys WRT54G >> > router. >> > One >> > of the guys at the LAN party changed settings somewhere so they could >> > hook >> > up. Since then the laptop will only connect wirelessly to our home >> > network >> > and I can't figure out how to make a hard wire connection. |
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