XP Pro not getting DHCP and not working with static IP

I've got a XP Pro machine, with a 3com 905b-tx network card in it. I can set
the ip address and sub group, workgroup name, no firewall, etc. and it will
not see the other machines (nor they see it) in my little network. The
lights on the network card light up, the light lites up on the hub but
nothing's there.

I can't even ping from the machine, or to the machine.

Please help!
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Thanks,

greg wrote:
I've got a XP Pro machine, with a 3com 905b-tx network card in it. I
can set the ip address and sub group, workgroup name, no firewall,
etc. and it will not see the other machines (nor they see it) in my
little network. The lights on the network card light up, the light
lites up on the hub but nothing's there.

I can't even ping from the machine, or to the machine.

Please help!

If you have a working DHCP server on your network and can't get an address
from it, it won't help to assign a static. Have you tried trying another
cable? Another port on the hub? Another NIC?

I've tried different cables from another machine that's working. I've swap
the network cards between the two machines (there both 3c905s). Both cards
work in one machine but not this machine. I've tried different ports on the
hub/router and continue to get the same results.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

greg wrote:
I've got a XP Pro machine, with a 3com 905b-tx network card in it. I
can set the ip address and sub group, workgroup name, no firewall,
etc. and it will not see the other machines (nor they see it) in my
little network. The lights on the network card light up, the light
lites up on the hub but nothing's there.

I can't even ping from the machine, or to the machine.

Please help!

If you have a working DHCP server on your network and can't get an address
from it, it won't help to assign a static. Have you tried trying another
cable? Another port on the hub? Another NIC?

greg wrote:
I've tried different cables from another machine that's working. I've
swap the network cards between the two machines (there both 3c905s).
Both cards work in one machine but not this machine. I've tried
different ports on the hub/router and continue to get the same
results.

OK - then check out http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

greg wrote:
I've got a XP Pro machine, with a 3com 905b-tx network card in it.
I can set the ip address and sub group, workgroup name, no firewall,
etc. and it will not see the other machines (nor they see it) in my
little network. The lights on the network card light up, the light
lites up on the hub but nothing's there.

I can't even ping from the machine, or to the machine.

Please help!

If you have a working DHCP server on your network and can't get an
address from it, it won't help to assign a static. Have you tried
trying another cable? Another port on the hub? Another NIC?

I've downloaded and ran the lspfix and I'm still getting the same results. I
can get on the internet with it through dial up connection but nothing
through cat-5 connection. (cable, card, hub, etc. all work with other
machines).

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

greg wrote:
I've tried different cables from another machine that's working. I've
swap the network cards between the two machines (there both 3c905s).
Both cards work in one machine but not this machine. I've tried
different ports on the hub/router and continue to get the same
results.

OK - then check out http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

greg wrote:
I've got a XP Pro machine, with a 3com 905b-tx network card in it.
I can set the ip address and sub group, workgroup name, no firewall,
etc. and it will not see the other machines (nor they see it) in my
little network. The lights on the network card light up, the light
lites up on the hub but nothing's there.

I can't even ping from the machine, or to the machine.

Please help!

If you have a working DHCP server on your network and can't get an
address from it, it won't help to assign a static. Have you tried
trying another cable? Another port on the hub? Another NIC?

I have the same issue. How did you fix it? my laptop connects fine, but my
desktop won't. I almost think it's a virus. the only way i can ping an ip
address is if i put a static ip address into this machine and then ping out.
It only pings an actual address and does NOT ping a www.yahoo.com or other
name. if i use "automatically detect" it doesn't ping anything... it just
finds a hokey 169. number. It's definitely somethiing in the machine and not
a network or IE setting.



"greg" wrote:

I've got a XP Pro machine, with a 3com 905b-tx network card in it. I can set
the ip address and sub group, workgroup name, no firewall, etc. and it will
not see the other machines (nor they see it) in my little network. The
lights on the network card light up, the light lites up on the hub but
nothing's there.

I can't even ping from the machine, or to the machine.

Please help!
--
Thanks,

The pci slott where the network card was installed was right next to an ISA
card slot, and I just happen to have an ISA network card. So to just try
something else, I took out the PCI card and put in the ISA card. With the
ISA card, the DHCP worked and the static IP worked, so I just left the ISA
card the machine. The pci card worked in another machine so I don't think it
was the problem. The pci slot may have had a problem. You might want to try
your network card in a different slot, but first remove it through the Device
Manager. Good Luck.

"Chris_Hagan" wrote:

I have the same issue. How did you fix it? my laptop connects fine, but my
desktop won't. I almost think it's a virus. the only way i can ping an ip
address is if i put a static ip address into this machine and then ping out.
It only pings an actual address and does NOT ping a www.yahoo.com or other
name. if i use "automatically detect" it doesn't ping anything... it just
finds a hokey 169. number. It's definitely somethiing in the machine and not
a network or IE setting.



"greg" wrote:

I've got a XP Pro machine, with a 3com 905b-tx network card in it. I can set
the ip address and sub group, workgroup name, no firewall, etc. and it will
not see the other machines (nor they see it) in my little network. The
lights on the network card light up, the light lites up on the hub but
nothing's there.

I can't even ping from the machine, or to the machine.

Please help!
--
Thanks,