No Connectivity at ALL !

rshappel · #1 (**permalink**) 02-11-2008

Good Day! I hope I can give enough info on this, so here goes...

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 that was running XP Pro. I upgraded to Vista Home Premium and all networking(wireless and wired) worked fine. I then went to my local coffee house and it worked fine there too via wireless. I then bring home the laptop and NO networking works, wired or wireless. I have tried all sorts of "tricks" I have read about in differnet posting, to no avail. Added registry items, changed public to private, removed reinstalled updated and even install a USB wireless adapter and it does not work.

Here are my specs: Ethernet is Broadcom 440x 10/100, internal wireless is Intel Pro wireless 2200bg, external USB is Linksys WUSB54g.
I have a Linksys WRT54G Router connect to a Linksys BEFCMU10 Cable Modem that goes to my ISP, Cox High Speed Cable.

I have another laptop and two other desktops that are running XP Pro and have no issues connecting wired or wireless to this setup.
I get the dreaded 169.254.xxx.xxx IP when I do ipconfig /all as Administrator. I've tries the /release and /renew with no results. I've tried Static IPs, tried attaching to my neighbors unsecured router, tried the "DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle: reg hack with 1 and 0. All with no success.

I'm grasping for any help or new idea. THANKS! Randal

whisper · #2 (**permalink**) 02-11-2008

This kind of issue that happened to you is really weired. The connection should reset it's default values every time when start up/ reboot that is what I experienced with my ISP an ADSL wired connection, despite sometimes I lost connection but it lasts quickly or longest time was around 20 hours not more than. The only thing I need to do is restarting PC and Modem, voilà it works again so in short message this is a very strange case and I hope you will get help very soon. Happy Computing.
Best Regards.
whisper

#3 (**permalink**) 02-11-2008

do a factory reset on the router.

small pin hole somewhere on the bottom or back.
push and end of a paper clip in softly for 10 secs.

prasun_patel · #4 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008

These issue with no connectivity happens when there is some application or the drivers are corrupted... as the ip:- 169.254.... only appears at that time.......

So do one thing do uninstall the drivers of the network adapters and the wireless card ...

Then do a power cycle of the router and then try connecting with the networm the issue sould be reolsved....