GA-7N400 Pro 2 Networking problem.

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I'm setting up a new computer with windows 2000 on a GA-7N400 Pro2.

All I've installed is the OS and the drivers.
I'm trying to network it to my router (which is working properly with my
other machine). As far as I can see the configuration
is correct. TCP/IP settings show DHCP and obtain DNS server address options
switched on. Also:

The networking icon displays in the toolbar. Disconnecting the cable
displays the x, reconnecting shows the icon again.
Pinging the router IP reports: destination host unreachable
ipconfig shows that windows has signed itself an IP address (rather than
obtaining one from the router).
I can't ping the new machine from the other machine on the network (if I
assign an IP address to the machine).
The motherboard network port is a gigabyte ethernet one. It's set to
automatically negotiate a speed and the connection shows as 100Mb (the same
as the router). Forcing it to a lower speed makes no difference.
On the ethernet port there are two LEDs, on is glowing green, hte other
flashing orange. I don't know if this indicates a problem?

Any ideas?
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Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

> it sounds like you're not being assigned an address via DHCP ... if you
can
> assign an IP address manually and it works then it's not a hardware
problem
> and the drivers etc. are working fine. The green LED shows that it's got a
> connection to the network, the flashing orange LED shows that there's
> traffic on the connection. Are there spare IP addresses available in the
> DHCP pool? ... is there any network security measures preventing unknown
MAC
> addresses from accessing the DHCP server?
>
> try releasing the IP address from a machine that does get it's IP via DHCP
> then release and renew via DHCP from the new machine ... if it works then
> you've just ran out of addresses in the pool. how does the pc connect to
the
> network? .. through a hub or a switch?
>
> hope some of that helps
>

Hi Mal,
Thanks for the reply.

I just tried plugging in the network card from my main machine and it all
worked fine, which rules out software problems.

Obvioulsy that meant switching off the main machine so if it's a DHCP issue
maybe that sorted it out, but there are only a maximum of two machines on
the network so I would be surprised if I was running out of addresses.

It connects via a LinkSys Wireless G router. I don't remember seeing any
options to restrict it to known Mac addresses. There is a 'Block Anonymous
Internet Requests' option which is checked (under the firewall settings)
which, possibly is the same thing - I'll do some fiddling later.

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Mike Sutton, Solent Software
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