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sinanjuSo I'm (finally) home from Denver. Now I have an issue with the laptop. The network card worked fine in the Hyatt Regency. It worked fine in the Red Roof Inn. In both cases, I plugged in a network cable and (after clicking through home page where I promised to abide by their terms of service and what not) I netsurfed with no problems.
Now that I'm home, the goddamn thing won't work with the network cable. Everything I can try under XP tells me the network card is connected (though it's not receiving any packets), but neither Firefox nor Agent can connect to anything. None of the suggested fixes in Firefox have helped. Trying to create a new network connection fails because the OS says there's already a network connection. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?
It's definitely a matter of the system not recognizing the connection somehow--because I'm posting this from the lap using a regular modem dial-up connection.
If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate them.
Edit: Thanks for the suggestions. It turned out that the system was using a static IP address instead of acquiring one automatically. Once I changed that, it worked just fine again. How that default got changed is a mystery to me.
Now that I'm home, the goddamn thing won't work with the network cable. Everything I can try under XP tells me the network card is connected (though it's not receiving any packets), but neither Firefox nor Agent can connect to anything. None of the suggested fixes in Firefox have helped. Trying to create a new network connection fails because the OS says there's already a network connection. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?
It's definitely a matter of the system not recognizing the connection somehow--because I'm posting this from the lap using a regular modem dial-up connection.
If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate them.
Edit: Thanks for the suggestions. It turned out that the system was using a static IP address instead of acquiring one automatically. Once I changed that, it worked just fine again. How that default got changed is a mystery to me.
