[BC] Networking question:

[Cowboy]

On Friday 04 April 2008 02:04 pm, Glen Kippel wrote:
>  OK, Brainy People -- I have a problem.  One of our audio recording/editing
>  computers went up in smoke and I moved the hard drive and sound card over to
>  another computer.  Everything looked good on the workbench; I could connect
>  to the internet, etc.  But when I put it back in the control room it won't
>  connect to the network.  No servers, no internet, nothing.  All I get is
>  "Limited or no connectability."   The router shows a light when it is
>  plugged in, and it goes out when I unplug the cable.  Running Network Setup
>  Wizard doesn't get me anywhere.  It's like it's giving me the wrong IP
>  address.  What am I doing wrong here?  Any input would be appreciated.
>  Thank you.

 The old lease on the IP hasn't been released, or it has and was re-assigned 
 to a different machine while this one was off.
 Don't remove and reinstall the NIC, but do release and renew the DHCP lease.
 Maybe assign a static IP for testing.

 Was the NIC motherboard, or PCI ?
 The MAC address changed, and windows does funny stuff with that sometimes.

 Does another machine work on THAT cable ? On THAT router port ? ( laptop )

-- 
Cowboy