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al
I have a Dell Lattitude 8600 that I use in a wired and wireless
environment both at home and at work. It's running Windows XP
Professional. It has a:
"Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller"
for the onboard NIC and a
"Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PIC Card Adapter"
for the wireless adapter. Both are original Dell OEM pieces.
Usually when I boot this laptop, I don't have any internet adapters
bound to TCP/IP, as is evidenced by running:
C:\>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
C:\>
There's nothing there! No adapters bound to IP! If I then run:
C:\>netsh int ip reset reset.txt
Then my TCP/IP stack is reset. I reboot, and my adapters are restored
to their original, DHCP enabled state. Then I have to assign the IP
address, gateway, DNS, WINS, etc., manually to start using my laptop on
whatever network I'm on.
Next time I reboot, the TCP/IP stack will be nonexistent again, and
I'll have to use netsh to reset it and manually reconfigure everything.
I've seen that this is a common problem, and the usual "solution" is to
run "netsh int ip reset", but this is crazy to boot up, reset the
stack, reboot again, and configure all the adapters every time I want
to use the computer!
Of course Dell simply says to "reinstall from the system recovery CD".
Thanks Dell. It's done this since day #1 and I don't think reinstalling
the OS is the ultimate solution.
Any suggestions?! Help!
Al
environment both at home and at work. It's running Windows XP
Professional. It has a:
"Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller"
for the onboard NIC and a
"Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PIC Card Adapter"
for the wireless adapter. Both are original Dell OEM pieces.
Usually when I boot this laptop, I don't have any internet adapters
bound to TCP/IP, as is evidenced by running:
C:\>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
C:\>
There's nothing there! No adapters bound to IP! If I then run:
C:\>netsh int ip reset reset.txt
Then my TCP/IP stack is reset. I reboot, and my adapters are restored
to their original, DHCP enabled state. Then I have to assign the IP
address, gateway, DNS, WINS, etc., manually to start using my laptop on
whatever network I'm on.
Next time I reboot, the TCP/IP stack will be nonexistent again, and
I'll have to use netsh to reset it and manually reconfigure everything.
I've seen that this is a common problem, and the usual "solution" is to
run "netsh int ip reset", but this is crazy to boot up, reset the
stack, reboot again, and configure all the adapters every time I want
to use the computer!
Of course Dell simply says to "reinstall from the system recovery CD".
Thanks Dell. It's done this since day #1 and I don't think reinstalling
the OS is the ultimate solution.
Any suggestions?! Help!
Al