problems with firewire networking

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I have 2 computers, a dell with XP and a sony vaio notebook with firewire
I rean the xp connection wizard, produced a disk, installed on sony, and all looked good. - the Dell even said "found new hardware - Sony Vaio and installed a driver for it from the internet!
The sony shows a firewire ethernet adapter with ip adress etc
The dell shows a connected firewire, but under "support" shows all ip addresses <Unavailable>. If I try and repair, it gives the error: "tcp/ip is not enabled for this connection".
But tcp IS enabled for this connection: If I double click on the connection, select properties, ip, file and shareing, and client for ms networks are all ticked. I have even told it to use an specific IP

Have tried disabling, renabling, rebooting etc

Any help appreciated

Gary
 
Further information, results of ipconfig /all (note no firewire nic, even though it thinks it is connected)

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp

C:\Documents and Settings\gary>ipconfig /al

Windows IP Configuratio

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : DB7XQT0
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . .
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknow
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : N
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : N

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnecte
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connect
o
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-07-E9-49-89-F

PPP adapter gary

Connection-specific DNS Suffix .
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interfac
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-0
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : N
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 81.41.58.7
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.25
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 81.41.58.7
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 195.235.113.
195.235.96.9

C:\Documents and Settings\gary>
 
I have 2 computers, a dell with XP and a sony vaio notebook with firewire.
I rean the xp connection wizard, produced a disk, installed on sony, and all looked good. - the Dell even said "found new hardware - Sony Vaio and installed a driver for it from the internet!"
The sony shows a firewire ethernet adapter with ip adress etc.
The dell shows a connected firewire, but under "support" shows all ip addresses <Unavailable>. If I try and repair, it gives the error: "tcp/ip is not enabled for this connection".
But tcp IS enabled for this connection: If I double click on the connection, select properties, ip, file and shareing, and client for ms networks are all ticked. I have even told it to use an specific IP.

Have tried disabling, renabling, rebooting etc.

Any help appreciated.

Gary.
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Try deleting the FireWire network adapter in Device Manager. Then,
reboot and let XP re-install it.
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