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by radiic 1 view

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One of my laptops (NT4.0 w/SP6a) was working fine on the network until the person broke the dongle on the pcmcia card that connected it to our net. So I bought a new one, removed the old one from the adpaters under network properties. Rebooted. Installed the new card with its drivers and told it to use dhcp to get its address. NO Luck. Comes back and says that the domain controller is not available. I have used ipconfig /renew from the dos prompt and get the Message Error: No adapters bound to TCP/IP are enabled for DHCP. I have tried removing and reinstalling the driver. If i assign the laptop an address i can ping its address and the loopback but nothing else on the net. I have link lights and act on the new card.

Heres thePisser. Even though the dongle on the old card is broke it still works if you just lay it there and the cables dont pull on it. So I unistalled the new one and tried the old one and get the same errors.

Any Ideas: I am missing something but not sure what. Since I am the entire IT department I dont have anyone to bounce ideas off of.

Thanks
Rad

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by rsp

Have you reapplied the service pack? After installing any driver, it's best to reapply the SP.

Sounds silly, but have you changed the RJ45 cable and/or hub port? Just having link and act lights doesn't mean it's working correctly.

Richard

by shanghai sam

I tried re-installing the SP but no go. I know its not the cable to the patch panel in my server room. Cause i plugged my workstation into it, with no problems. I really feel like NT is bugged somehow. Any more ideas email thru peer network.

Thanks
Rad

by dc1

After adding the new card and drivers reapply your service pack. This will re-bind TCP/IP to the card.

by shanghai sam

I tried re-installing the SP but no go. I know its not the cable to the patch panel in my server room. Cause i plugged my workstation into it, with no problems. I really feel like NT is bugged somehow. Any more ideas email thru peer network.
Thanks
Rad

by oskiller

Things to do...

Remove the driver, remove tcp/ip, install driver, install tcp/ip, install service pack.

Finally, something else to check - some hubs and switches have port security on them such that the only device that can use the port is theone that first connects to it. You may need to clear the history/security of the port so it can learn the new MAC address and run away with it.

by shanghai sam

I tried re-installing the SP but no go. I know its not the cable to the patch panel in my server room. Cause i plugged my workstation into it, with no problems. I really feel like NT is bugged somehow. Any more ideas email thru peer network.

Thanks
Rad

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