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the staring frogs of Southern Iberia
I've posted this problem before with no luck fixing it. I've gotten a new
laptop given to me from my sister in law.It was used by her company for
conducting business. It's a Dell Inspiron 2500 with win 2000 professional on
it. My problem is it won't connect to my home internet access. I can't
browse the web at all from it when I connect it to my ethernet cable.
The desktop and my other HP laptop have no problem getting online
using a cable modem and a netgear router. Both the desktop and HP laptop
connect using Cat 5 cabling. Two different rooms in the house.
I've tried connecting the cable to the Dell's ethernet connection
but no joy. The green LED on the connection lights up, a balloon on the Dell
pops up saying I'm connected at 100mps but the yellow LED flickers once or
twice then nothing. I've tried pinging google etc. and surfing but all I get
is constant 404's.
The progress bar at the bottom of IE6 climbs slowly then nothing.
What am I doing wrong?
Could it be software leftover from the business apps that is blocking
the connection? I haven't wiped the drive since it didn't come with a
recovery disk.
laptop given to me from my sister in law.It was used by her company for
conducting business. It's a Dell Inspiron 2500 with win 2000 professional on
it. My problem is it won't connect to my home internet access. I can't
browse the web at all from it when I connect it to my ethernet cable.
The desktop and my other HP laptop have no problem getting online
using a cable modem and a netgear router. Both the desktop and HP laptop
connect using Cat 5 cabling. Two different rooms in the house.
I've tried connecting the cable to the Dell's ethernet connection
but no joy. The green LED on the connection lights up, a balloon on the Dell
pops up saying I'm connected at 100mps but the yellow LED flickers once or
twice then nothing. I've tried pinging google etc. and surfing but all I get
is constant 404's.
The progress bar at the bottom of IE6 climbs slowly then nothing.
What am I doing wrong?
Could it be software leftover from the business apps that is blocking
the connection? I haven't wiped the drive since it didn't come with a
recovery disk.