Hello Everyone...
Please bare with me as I am trying to recall everything that has happened in the past 48 hours.
My older brother who is VERY computer illiterate and lives about 25 hours away called and said his internet hadn't been working for about a week. The very small cable/dsl provider has been to his house and fixed some outside wires or something from a bad storm.
He doesn't connect the computer to a cable modem but merely a place in his wall which then runs outside to a box.
He has connected another friends computer, and his xbox to the current line using the current ethernet cable and all can access the internet. So the problem must be software or hardware?
When he does ipconfig /all he gets a media state disconnected and NO IP at all, so there is nothing to ping.
He has installed a new NIC as the other was onboard, the NIC comes up in System Devices just fine with no errors, but he isn't getting any lights on the card. It's a cheap Network Everywhere card made from Linksys which I don't think is supported in Windows XP.
Any suggestions to fixing this? I have had him do every possible netsh command, and lastnight he was so ticked off he reinstalled windows after wiping it clean *yes very irrational*
Please help
Please bare with me as I am trying to recall everything that has happened in the past 48 hours.
My older brother who is VERY computer illiterate and lives about 25 hours away called and said his internet hadn't been working for about a week. The very small cable/dsl provider has been to his house and fixed some outside wires or something from a bad storm.
He doesn't connect the computer to a cable modem but merely a place in his wall which then runs outside to a box.
He has connected another friends computer, and his xbox to the current line using the current ethernet cable and all can access the internet. So the problem must be software or hardware?
When he does ipconfig /all he gets a media state disconnected and NO IP at all, so there is nothing to ping.
He has installed a new NIC as the other was onboard, the NIC comes up in System Devices just fine with no errors, but he isn't getting any lights on the card. It's a cheap Network Everywhere card made from Linksys which I don't think is supported in Windows XP.
Any suggestions to fixing this? I have had him do every possible netsh command, and lastnight he was so ticked off he reinstalled windows after wiping it clean *yes very irrational*
Please help
