Network Connection Disappears

[Alex Francis]

I have opened a new post for this since the last one was way down the list.

I have now set a static IP address on my laptop, also on the network card on
my workstation, leaving my cable connection card as it was.

When I do a repair on the connection on my laptop, I am now told that the
repair was successful but my network still does not work.
The Status Details are now:
Physical Address 00-D0-59-34-24-9B
IP Address 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway, DNS Server and WINS Server are all blank.

On my workstation my Network connections show on the top, my Internet
Connection, below that I have "Network Bridge" with three icons.
The first is a "1394 Connection Enabled, Bridged Net Adapter (whatever that
means). The status of this is Connected Speed 400.0 Mbps. When trying to
repair, I am told that TCP/IP is not enabled for this connection.
The second icon looks like a bridge and the status shows connected and speed
40o Mbps. A repair on this tells me the repair has completed. The properties
of this allows me to set a static TCP/IP address which I have done.
The detais of the status for this is
Physical Address F2-7C-D9-14-58-2F
IP Address 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway, DNS Server and WINS Server are all blank.

The third icon is my Realtek Card and is enabled and bridged. The status of
this is Connected Speed 400.0 Mbps. When trying to repair, I am told that
TCP/IP is not enabled for this connection.

Hope this information helps. Incidentally, I had all this working alright
before I upgraded my computers to XP.

 

[JR]

Hi Alex,
It seems very strange that you have your connections
bridged.....
Although I don't know your complete setup, I would
suggest that you delete the bridge. That could clear your
problem.

 

[Alex Francis]

The bridge was automatically installed by XP. I didn't have a bridge when I
used 98. I will try deleting the bridge and setting everything up manually
as I had to do with 98.

 

[Alex Francis]

Obviously the bridge had something to do with the Internet Connection
Sharing. My network works fine now but I can't connect to the internet or
check my mail on any other computer.