Interesting Network problem

Hey all, yesterday I ran into an interesting problem just wondering if anyone else has run into it as well and may have an idea what's going on.

On another laptop I reformatted reinstalled drivers and all of a sudden the router that I am on would not send the computer any information I know that it is not the network card because at work is where it was formatted and updated so the card works fine. I changed ports and tried other laptops...they all work on all of the ports. Anyone had a similar problem?

 

Disable the wired ethernet adapter?

Did you intall SP2 for Windows? I think you need it to use anything >64bit WEP encryption.

 

yep SP2 is on, tried disabling and re-enabling the card. im guessing its a router issue

 

You might want to check in the settings of the router. Also, depending on how you setup the network and wizard you might have to power-cycle the router. I know this seems odd, but alot of people forget to do stuff like that.

Don't ask me why, but when I have to do something to the network settings on my laptop and I go to get back on the network, I have to restart my router.

 

alright, thanks USAFdude02 I will try that in a few hours when I get home

 

What I meant was disable the WIRED network connection and leave it disabled so that the laptop is not trying to use that connection as the default.

 

this is from the wired connection. the wireless is disconnected and disabled. I also tried removing all drivers and only installing the wired network adapter to no avail

 

UPDATE - restarted the router and everything went fine and dandy. seems like a strange solution but hey, whatever works right? thanks for the help

 

The main reason that this happens is the router assignes the IP to the MAC address. Once you re-set-up the network, it changed what the IP was, so that MAC address had an IP conflict. Once you restarted the router it resolved that conflict. Glad I could help.