re: Modem/Router working fine. XP won't recognise them
Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 6:48 am
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Posted by Ari
(1280 messages posted)
Still not very helpful. Can you ping the modem? Can you ping the router? What do
you mean it "didn't recognize" the modem when you plugged in the ethernet cable?
It's not supposed to "recognize" anything when you do that. It's not like the machine
can tell what kind of modem you've connected it to when you plug in an ethernet cable.
Again, what do you get from ipconfig /all? How do you have TCP/IP configured in
your network connection applet for the ethernet card (under Properties)?
On Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 6:39 am, George Cowley wrote:
>Ok. To clear up some confusion...
>
>The modem works as does the router. At the moment my sister-in-law is missing a
cable
>but this is of no importance.
>
>As a test I plugged the modem via the Cat5 cable into my Macbook and had a connection
>and surfed the web.
>
>I plugged the modem with the Cat5 cable into the HP (avoiding the router) and the
>HP didn't recognise it. It did tell me I had a 400mbps connection but wouldn't let
>me use it.
>
>I tried again with a USB cable from the modem to the HP. It told me what modem I
>was using so it clearly has the drivers needed. Again, it would not let me use it.
>
>As far as the router is concerned. That's just plain bizarre. It works with my sister-in-law's
>windows laptop but I couldn't get it to do anything from my Macbook.
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