Interesting problem: ThinkPad 600e Win98se

[amiak]

Hi,

I recently installed Windows 98se on a ThinkPad 600e.

I'm having a problem the network card. I installed the network card and it worked fine, but it will not let go of the first IP address it received via DHCP.

Now I can uninstall the pc card, then reinstall it, and it still has the same IP address even before I connect it to the network.

Any ideas?

Glenn

 

[amiak]

I installed the network card at school.

The laptop received an IP address on the school's network.

Now I can manually change the IP address, but when I set <obtain IP address automatically> that same IP address from the school's network remains.

Even if I uninstall the network card, then reinstall it, the same IP address from the school's network remains.

When I connect the laptop to the network at work I still have the same IP address that I received at school.

The laptop isn't receiving a new IP address when it connects to different networks with working DHCP servers.

There are several ways to fix this.

 

[SYAR2003]

It's normal to get same ip adress at school each time
as the dhcp server knows your adapers mac address and sets a lease on the ip adress used to 20 days or something .

At work if there is a dhcp server
and properties is set to obtain ip address it should get a new one .

When you change properties you have to renew the adapter settings.

Use
run
winipcfg
Release all
renew all

 

[amiak]

thanks,

That is what *should* work, but it doesn't.

 

[herrslime]

This is just a wild guess but since it remains after an uninstall is it possible the ip address ended up in the registry somewhere? Try doing a search in regedit for the ip address.