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L. Manning Vines
I'm running a Dell Latitude cpi-a366, 128mb of RAM. I'm
using a Xircom modem/ethernet PCMCIA card to access a
campus network. I've just installed Win2k and found that,
unlike WinME and Linux running from the same machine, it
wouldn't let me access the network (and thereby the
Internet).
It tries and tries and fails and fails, as evidenced by
the green link-integrity light on my dongle. The light
comes on. . . goes out. On. . . out. Ipconfig shows that
it's not getting an IP and keeps assigning itself one.
Event viewer keeps giving me various DHCP or IP warnings
or errors (usually that I'm getting an IP that is already
in use). This baffled me since the same card and the same
network function properly on the same machine in WinME and
Linux. Then I took the card to somebody else's machine
with Win2k and it worked right away, no problem.
This became even more baffling when I found that after
entering standby mode and returning, it suddenly works
fine! I've heard of people having hardware STOP
functioning after returning from standby mode, but never
that it STARTS working!
What is going on?! I can continue working just fine by
always entering and returning from standby mode whenever i
turn my computer on or restart, but this is very
inconvenient. How can I make it work from the start?
Please help!
Please email responses to (e-mail address removed)
using a Xircom modem/ethernet PCMCIA card to access a
campus network. I've just installed Win2k and found that,
unlike WinME and Linux running from the same machine, it
wouldn't let me access the network (and thereby the
Internet).
It tries and tries and fails and fails, as evidenced by
the green link-integrity light on my dongle. The light
comes on. . . goes out. On. . . out. Ipconfig shows that
it's not getting an IP and keeps assigning itself one.
Event viewer keeps giving me various DHCP or IP warnings
or errors (usually that I'm getting an IP that is already
in use). This baffled me since the same card and the same
network function properly on the same machine in WinME and
Linux. Then I took the card to somebody else's machine
with Win2k and it worked right away, no problem.
This became even more baffling when I found that after
entering standby mode and returning, it suddenly works
fine! I've heard of people having hardware STOP
functioning after returning from standby mode, but never
that it STARTS working!
What is going on?! I can continue working just fine by
always entering and returning from standby mode whenever i
turn my computer on or restart, but this is very
inconvenient. How can I make it work from the start?
Please help!
Please email responses to (e-mail address removed)