Network Problem

[n4lly]

This afternoon i installed a Usb wireless device, which worked.

 

However, have discovered that my second PC, which is conected

by a cross over cable has lost conection, no Internet etc.

 

Have spent a couple of hours with Help and clicked a million tabs.

 

Is there an easy way to re-network/activate this second PC? I'm the host !

 

Both win XP home

 

Cheers

 

Edited November 30, 2005 by n4lly

[jimpy0]

is it not in control panel / wireless connection wizard???????

[n4lly]

Seems still to be there but with limited or no conectivity.

Will not connect to the internet

[SandTiger]

Are you familiar with ipconfig as this should be your first port of call?

 

Googling "IPCONFIG commands" should be of help.

[Newt]

I assume from your using a cross-over cable and mentioning 'host' PC that you are using ICS to let the 2nd PC connect to the internet.

 

ICS is like lots of the other free applets Microsoft provided in that it works but isn't real configurable and demands you meet certain conditions including a very specific 'internal' IP address on the host machine.

 

SandTiger pointed you in the proper direction but to make things a little easier for us to help you, do the following and post the contents of both the text files you will be creating to a reply here. That's the ENTIRE contents with nothing ommited or masked or altered or whatever.

 

On each PC,

- click on start, on run, key in cmd, click OK.

- from the cmd prompt, key in the following line and then press ENTER

ipconfig /all > c:\config.txt

 

Note that you have redirected the output from the screen to a text file so you won't see any results on screen. Just open each c:\config.txt file, copy the contents, and post here.

[n4lly]

Tried that cmd, nothing happened ????

 

 

 

This 2nd pc has been connected for a year now, no problems

until i instaled this 'Nintendo usb WI-FI dongle.

The Usb WI-FI not connecting now either

 

Think i'll get someone in to sort

[n4lly]

Have tried the bridge route, every thing says its connected.

Pc 2 says its connected to pc 1.

Still no internet???

 

Losing interest fast.

 

Think i'll go watch LOST in a min

[Newt]

n4lly - after you ran the command, did you check in c:\ for a text file named config.txt? The command should have created one and it will contain the needed information.

 

At a guess, adding the wireless USB thingy altered some IP information and that stopped your other PC from connecting properly.

[n4lly]

Pc 'One'

 

 

 

Windows IP Configuration

 

 

 

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : daddyscomputer

 

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

 

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

 

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes

 

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

 

 

 

Ethernet adapter Network Bridge:

 

 

 

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

 

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : MAC Bridge Miniport

 

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-0C-76-17-C7-8B

 

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

 

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

 

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

 

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

 

 

 

PPP adapter Tiscali Broadband:

 

 

 

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

 

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface

 

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00

 

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

 

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 88.105.2.58

 

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255

 

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 88.105.2.58

 

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 80.225.250.178

 

80.225.250.186

 

 

 

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PC 'Two' Cannot show as does not have internet, do you a clue what i should look

for on comp two ?

 

Cheers Newt Mucho appreciated.

 

Sean

 

[SandTiger]

Personally I would delete all network bridges.

 

 

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PC 'Two' Cannot show as does not have internet, do you a clue what i should look

for on comp two ?

 

Cheers Newt Mucho appreciated.

 

Sean

 

 

Repeat the same process on PC 2

Edited November 30, 2005 by SandTiger