Local Area Connection: Limited or no connectivity

I got a new inspiron 6000 laptop. I have connected the cable connection and the status under Local Area connection says limited or no connectivity. I have downloaded the latest drivers from the dell website but does not work. Cable is working as I am able to connect another laptop.

under ipconfig IP address and default gateway are blank.

Dell support (chat) was of no help.

Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks,

 

Are you using a wireless connection or a wired connection to your modem/router?

If your using a wired connection is your port active? I have disabled mine as I'm using a pure wireless solution. ATM can't remember how to reactivate tho.....

Jon.

 

Magic thread moving skills to wireless!

...Anyways your using an ethernet cable (Wider phone plug) to plug it in to a laptop.

To get this working: I assume your setup is modem to the computer. So plug in the ethernet cord, make sure local area connection is disabled, then restart your modem and then enable local area connection. Easy as that, but if it doesnt work, then try repairing the connection by going into the connection propterties, then support.

Good luck!

 

please be specific in how you hardware is setup (cable modem, router, notebook), how you are trying to connect / what steps are you taking to connect. it's difficult to troubleshoot with the info you gave us.

fyi, if you have no default gateway or IP addy, you're not connecting to the router/dhcp server.

 

I think he is on wireless because me too sometimes i get that... but then it goes back to normal so I got no solution for u
I'm using Intel 2200bg with Netgear WGR614 router and i'm using the intel wireless software, if that helps

 

"under ipconfig IP address and default gateway are blank" = your computer has no IP address allocated. Depending on the network you are trying to connect to you can do the following:
1) you are on a home (small) network with static addresses -> you must set those addresses by yourself:
-get in touch with the network admin and have him tell you: your IP address (something like 192.168.x.x) & subnet mask, default gateway, DNS address
-go to Network Connections>right click on the troublesome connection>Properties>right click on Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)>select "Use ..." and type in what the admin told you;

2)your connecting to a network (a large network, or the Internet) with Dynamical Address -> Run>cmd; type "ipconfig /release" then "ipconfig /renew"; next you should see your IP & stuff (I had this problem myself; I have a cable modem, and for some reason, sometimes Win can't aquire an IP from the DHCP server by itself)

 

Maybe this could fix your problem
http://www.pchell.com/support/limitedconnectivity.shtml

 

My dell 700m laptop wouldn't update its ip address so i couldn't connect to any wireless routers. I googled the problem and randomly got to this site after looking at many other sites. I did install SP2, but the thing that actually worked for me was drunkmunky's link to http://www.pchell.com/support/limitedconnectivity.shtml

which then led me to install the SP2 patch and when that didn't work I used the WinsockXPFix.exe and it worked like a charm. I just can't figure out how I got this problem in the first place...