XP Networking problem

[Greg]

I am troubleshooting an XP problem for a friend. He has a
Gateway laptop running XP. He had TCP/IP setup for DHCP
using a home wireless router. Everything was working fine
until a couple of days ago. The laptop can no
longer "surf" the web. DHCP doesn't work at all. I've
tried DHCP at my work and it fails there too. I configured
static IP's and can ping ip addresses all over the
Internet. However, I can't ping using any DNS name. DNS
server works fine for other systems so it is not a DNS
server issue. Tried to surf using IP's and it can't do
that either. NetBios is working fine as I can browse
other systems on the network. Tried the old standby of
removing TCP/IP and rebooting to no avail. Also tried
modifying the hosts file to no avail. Added a known good
PCMCIA card with the same results.

 

[Aidan]

Make sure the routers IP address is configured as the
computer's gateway in the TCP/IP configuration - good luck!

 

[Guest]

DHCP is supposed to provide that to the PC. But since I
can't get DHCP working I verified this is correct for my
static configuration. I know it is correct because I can
ping yahoo, cisco and microsoft web page IP addresses so I
know IP routing is working properly. My issue is multi-
fold: DHCP fails to work, DNS name resolution fails to
work and oddly HTTP doesn't seem to work very well.
Firewalls aren't blocking anything as other PC's are
working fine from the same static subnet. Other PC's are
2000. I've also tried restoring to a configuration from
June and that didn't change anything so it doesn't appear
to be anything that has been installed in the last couple
of weeks.

 

[Guest]

I had same problem i can point you in the right direction.
if you know about windows this my help you. the media is
disconnected. meaning the pcmia card was removed while
power was on and windows disabled it i cannot remember how
to reenbale it, as i have done the same thing again i now
need the same help you need.

 

[Guest]

try the following and let me know if it works... I have the same problem,
I'll have a go tonight with it. It's the first post I found where people seem
to actually have solved the problem (search for OISA, the author of the post
with the solution that seems to work)

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=337688

ciao Luca

 

[Lance]

The fix at the website seems very similar to repairing a corrupt Winsock
as described here:
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811259&Product=winxp>

The method above seems to be a little less work as it doesn't involve an
XP Repair.

Lance
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Luca F. thought carefully and wrote on 8/23/2004 1:15 AM: