cannot establish network connection

[malagash]

I have installed the correct drivers for my NIC and all is well in Dev Mgr however when I go to create a new connection I only get a dial up option or accept incoming connections
Thanks in advance

 

[StumblingForward]

Why are you trying to create a new connection? are you on DSL, Satelite, Cable? What OS are you running XP home, Pro?

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

 

[malagash]

Sorry, Win 2K.
Trying to establish a connection to the LAN

 

[PcLinuxGuru]

So after the nic is installed there is no Local Area connection in the Network settings?

What does it say when you run a ipconfig from the command prompt?

 

[StumblingForward]

I Know this sounds too easy but have you checked your network cable, i confess to being the guy that will rebuild it all and it be a bad cable.
Win2K should just pick it up, if its a new comp to the LAN, check to see if the IP range is set high enough, if this is in a office network then it may have just hit the limit it was set for. Try uninstalling the NIC and move it to a different PCI slot and reinstall it. Try a different NIC, or install that one into a different Comp to see if it works.
I know im listing a lot but im just trying to cover all the stuff i would do if i was on a call.



Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

 

[malagash]

Thanks
Cable works in any other unit
don't understand the "check to see if the IP range is set high enough". It is my own network with 3 other computers
I uninstalled and reinstalled the NIC
Tried an alternate NIC
Tried a different slot
talk about feeling foolish...

 

[burtsbees]

In Add or Remove Windows Components (I think), is tcp/ip installed?

Burt

 

[StumblingForward]

If you haven't ever messed with your routers setting then it is probably not that, the IP range is a setting in the router to limit the amount of IP addresses that the router will give out and the defaults are usually a range of 1000. I think the computer just doesn't want to be very sociable with others. Have you tried plugging it into a different port on the switch/router, im sure you have but its one of the last things i can think of on the hardware end of it. See if the tcp/ip is installed as burtsbees has said.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

 

[malagash]

TCP/IP is installed...
I'm thinking the fastest way is to reforamt and reinstall.

 

[malagash]

Time being what it is and there was nothing to save on the HDD I took the easy way out and formatted / reinstalled.
Thanks for the help, I will let you know how I get on

 

[StumblingForward]

I hate that you had to do that but hope it works, sorry we couldn't be more helpful

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein