media state .................media sisconnected

Using a wired lan connection to my router .
On attempting to get an Advent 7801 laptop that was given to my son working
correctly .
It has no recovery partition nor recovery disk the OS is Windows XP Pro
The problem is with the LAN card an SIS 900 Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter.
on attempting to get online with no success and noting the Local Area
Network A network cable is unplugged message I investigated further
On trying IPCONFIG I see the message Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Media State....................:media state disconnected
IPCONFIG/RELEASE does not work
IPCONFIG/ALL shows this
Host name Jaffas-toy
Primary DNS Suffix :
Node Type.............:Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled.............:No
Wins Proxy Enabled............:No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Media State...............:Media dissconnected
Description.................SIS 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
Pysical Address.............00-12=2a=9d-71-e8
with WINternals on checking the disk and networking options I find using
IPCONFIG/ALL shows an IP 169.254.0.0
Subnet Mask 255.255.0.0
But unable to manually assign an IP Address
The laptop will not use a wireless adapter for the same reasons as above it
seems
So Guys and Gals any clues would be very very much appreciated

Hi
Use this process to make sure that you have a functional Network substrate.
http://www.ezlan.net/debug.html
Take into consideration that there is No Magic solutions to computers
issues. If it ends up that Network card is No good, or the OS needs to be
reinstalled you would have to buy whatever is needed.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

"Illuzion" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Using a wired lan connection to my router .
> On attempting to get an Advent 7801 laptop that was given to my son
> working
> correctly .
> It has no recovery partition nor recovery disk the OS is Windows XP Pro
> The problem is with the LAN card an SIS 900 Based PCI Fast Ethernet
> Adapter.
> on attempting to get online with no success and noting the Local Area
> Network A network cable is unplugged message I investigated further
> On trying IPCONFIG I see the message Ethernet adapter Local Area
> Connection:
> Media State....................:media state disconnected
> IPCONFIG/RELEASE does not work
> IPCONFIG/ALL shows this
> Host name Jaffas-toy
> Primary DNS Suffix :
> Node Type.............:Broadcast
> IP Routing Enabled.............:No
> Wins Proxy Enabled............:No
>
> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
> Media State...............:Media dissconnected
> Description.................SIS 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
> Pysical Address.............00-12=2a=9d-71-e8
> with WINternals on checking the disk and networking options I find using
> IPCONFIG/ALL shows an IP 169.254.0.0
> Subnet Mask 255.255.0.0
> But unable to manually assign an IP Address
> The laptop will not use a wireless adapter for the same reasons as above
> it
> seems
> So Guys and Gals any clues would be very very much appreciated
>