After 16 hours with MS-help and RoadRunner-help, still NO IP Addre

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Not Bitter, No Complaint; just wonder how is it that a perfect WinSE98 machine
on VIA P4PB 400FL motherboard (w rhineIII ethernet chip) been slaughtered by
XP Home Edition.

That is to say, have refreshed the rhine-driver;
have tried alternative ethernet-card;
went through all possible routines of resetting the cable-modem,
ipconfig/release.renew, etc. TO NO AVAIL - no IP Address!

Well, after the gods from the Olympus failed me, if any of you mortals have
advice
(beside going back to Win98), yes, you would put back another mortal on his
feet.
 
Low_IQ Person said:
Not Bitter, No Complaint; just wonder how is it that a perfect WinSE98
machine
on VIA P4PB 400FL motherboard (w rhineIII ethernet chip) been slaughtered
by
XP Home Edition.

That is to say, have refreshed the rhine-driver;
have tried alternative ethernet-card;
went through all possible routines of resetting the cable-modem,
ipconfig/release.renew, etc. TO NO AVAIL - no IP Address!

Well, after the gods from the Olympus failed me, if any of you mortals
have
advice
(beside going back to Win98), yes, you would put back another mortal on
his
feet.
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Please post the result of ipconfig/all
Where is your computer supposed to be getting its IP address?
As you are using a modem, is it configured to be a dhcp server, and is the
computer supposed to be getting its
ip address via dhcp?


Jim
 
Hi
Actually the people that should help in this are the computer manufacturer
or the motherboard manufacturer.
Log to via site look for the support for the VIA P4PB 400FL and see if there
are drivers specific for WinXP.
Otherwise it might be that the motherboard's chipset has problem with WinXP,
and the drivers are not fully compatible.
Here is the VIA forum search it may be you would find solution there.
http://forums.viaarena.com/
Jack (MVP-Networking).
 
Thanks Jim,
Observing ipconfig/all that comes through my laptop (that replaces the
faulty desktop):

dhcp enabled: Yes
dhcp server: 66.75.176.61
dms server 66.75.164.90

No clue how to enable dhcp ---> couldn't see any setting related to it
(through Device-manager internet-setting etc.).

Qn
can my LAPTOP have "dhcp enabled" and my DESKTOP have dhcp disabled?
 
Thanks Jack,

Went to VIA arena (indeed, it is the right place). have tried to follow
ezlan.net..
cannot find any setting related to dhcp..
 
Hi
DHCP is a method to obtain an IP address for each computer.
When a computer is set to obtain an IP address Auto then, if you have a
Cable/DSL Router, the Router has DHCP server that provides the computer with
an IP address.
If you were connected to the Internet Modem directly, your ISP would provide
the IP.
If there is No DHCP server available on a local network static IP has to be
use.
Jack (MVP-Networking).
 
Low_IQ Person said:
Thanks Jim,
Observing ipconfig/all that comes through my laptop (that replaces the
faulty desktop):

dhcp enabled: Yes
dhcp server: 66.75.176.61
dms server 66.75.164.90

No clue how to enable dhcp ---> couldn't see any setting related to it
(through Device-manager internet-setting etc.).

Qn
can my LAPTOP have "dhcp enabled" and my DESKTOP have dhcp disabled?
Click to expand...
You say that you have a cable modem, yet you are receiving public IP
addresses.
There is something wrong with the setup of the cable modem.
If done correctly, then the IP addresses of your computers should lie in the
192.168.x.x range.
And, no your two computers do not need identical settings for dhcp. If you
should use
static settings, you just need to insure that the static settings do not
conflict with the automatic ones.

It has been some time since I setup my network, but I recall that the dhcp
setting is made by the
Network Setup Wizard.

Jim
 
Jim said:
You say that you have a cable modem, yet you are receiving public IP
addresses.
There is something wrong with the setup of the cable modem.
If done correctly, then the IP addresses of your computers should lie in
the 192.168.x.x range.
And, no your two computers do not need identical settings for dhcp. If
you should use
static settings, you just need to insure that the static settings do not
conflict with the automatic ones.

It has been some time since I setup my network, but I recall that the dhcp
setting is made by the
Network Setup Wizard.

Jim
Click to expand...
An addendum:

Help & Support discusses how to enable a Windows XP computer as a dhcp
client. I found the instructions by
entering "how do i enable dhcp" in the search box. Well, you do need to
look at the returned search results for these.

Jim
 
In general, new software on top of old hardware is a prescription for system
suicide.
Conversely, old software on top of new hardware is "paradise."
 
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