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jr88   12-17-2007 at 09:07:13 AM

Hey guys, I have a little problem with Vista Ultimate 64bit.

When it is directly connected to my modem, it connects to the internet no problem (Rogers Hi-speed cable) but when I connect it to my router with an Ethernet all I see is "limited connectivity" to an "unidentified network". This of course translates into no internet.

I have tried updating my motherboard's Ethernet with its latest drivers, this did not help.

I'm using a gigabyte p35-ds3l motherboard which uses a Realtek RTL8168/8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0). The router I am using is a Linksys WRT350N flashed with dd-wrt v24 RC3 (the software that comes with this router simply sucks).

Other stuff... my XP computers connect both through wireless and Ethernet cable to the router with no problem. Can anyone suggest a solution?

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Scotteq   12-17-2007 at 10:48:19 AM
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Well - Since Vista finds, configures, and works on the network by itself just fine, I don't believe there's a problem there. It sounds like the Linksys drivers you have aren't working - Go to Linksys' site and see can you find ones that *do* work.

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quicsilver   12-17-2007 at 02:39:30 PM
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You try power cycling both modem, then the router? Then maybe restart Vista if it still doesn't connect. Vista is real picky about having "other" connections, will name it something like connection 2 or something.

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Cirga   12-17-2007 at 06:01:34 PM
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I know this may sound silly to ask.. but did you hit the Start button and choose Connect To? It may be as simple as going to Connect To.. selecting your new LAN network (behind your router).. and telling it to allow internet traffic through that network.

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jr88   12-17-2007 at 06:37:33 PM
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Flashing the router with Firmare v 1.05.8 beta did the trick. For those of you readers, you should search google for it, as the Linksys website only had 1.03.2 on it (and this version drops connections alot).

Thanks again,
jr88

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Cirga   12-17-2007 at 08:18:04 PM
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Ahh.. good to know. Thanks JR

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ohiou_grad_06   12-22-2007 at 04:12:23 AM
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A funny story, one time had built a new system, mobo went dead after I'd set up MAC filtering, long story short, had to use wife's lappy to hack into my own router, lol.

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