Hi
Try checking these things out:
1. Are you running a software firewall, such as Zone Alarm or Norton's Internet Security? If so, put the 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254 IP range into the Trusted Local Zone.
2. Your DLink should be acting as a DHCP server. Under your computer's TCP/IP settings do you have it set to Obtain an IP address?
3. Should this not work, hard set the IP address on the computer to an IP range on the local area network.
4. Check your cable. Is it a crossover cable instead of a straight patch cable? Should it be the correct cable type, test it on another computer to see if the cable is good.
5. Try switching ports on the router.
6. Check for spyware and viruses.
7. Uninstall, reboot, and then reinstall the TCP/IP protocol.
8. Check your winsock files to ensure they are not missing, wrong version, or corrupted.
9. You "immediately" get a hung shut down. Immediately after what? This would indicate a driver issue. The 3COM driver? Try installing the OS specific driver that came with the NIC.
10. Move the NIC to another PCI slot.
11. Try a different NIC. It is unusal for 3COM to have a compatabilty issue, but not impossible.
12. If you do not have a light on the port the cable to the computer is connected, you have a hardware problem. Router, NIC, and/or cable .... or a burned out light.
13. Check to see that the NIC is fully seated in it's slot.
14. Call 911 or wait on "TheChas" to see if he can identify any other possibilites.
I numbered these suggestions for ease of seperating them and not as a guide to an order of troubleshooting. Start where you feel the most likely problem is and then move to the next most likely and so on until you exhuast this list.
I hope this helps.
