In article <bt23eb$2jsr5$(E-Mail Removed)>, Torsten
Mielke <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Hopefully someone can help on the following networking problem.
>I want to integrate an Windows ME laptop into an existing home LAN
>consisting of an DSL router (Linksys) and another laptop running Windows
>2000. The existing LAN works without problem and the DSL router uses
>DHCP to assign IP addresses.
>
>I configured the new laptop (that runs Windows ME) for TCP/IP with DHCP.
> The configuration looks straight forward to me. After a reboot the box
>gets its IP address from the router.
>The network works fine in the beginning and I can ping the router, the
>other laptop and also use the Internet.
>After a short time I get timeouts when connecting to any machine from
>the Windows ME laptop.
>
>I use ping -t to ping the router and the other laptop. It works without
>problems for the first few minutes and then the first timeouts occur but
> only happen sporadically. After another approx. 4 minutes I have more
>timeouts than successful pings and a little while later the ping command
>always fails. This altogether doesn't take more than 20 minutes.
>
>Luckily I have a bootable Linux CD and when booting up Linux it
>correctly configures the network for DHCP and then the laptop works fine
>all the time without any errors. Thus, the network card itself must be
>okay and so must the cable that connects the laptop to the router be.
>
>I also observed that ipconfig fails with various errors when being run
>at the same time when ping reports errors. Subsequent runs of ipconfig
>sometimes succeed and sometimes fail. Sometimes ipconfig times out,
>sometimes it set its IP address to 0.0.0.0.
>Rebooting Windows ME makes the network work again for a short while.
>
>To make a long story short, I cannot get the Windows ME laptop to work
>properly in my LAN for longer than 20 minutes. The Windows 2000 laptop
>*always* works fine.
>The Windows ME network configuration for TCP/IP seem be similar to the
>one on Windows 2000.
>
>Does anyone have an idea what I could be missing? Is there any
>configuration item that could be responsible for that behavior? Anything
>you suggest to check/verify?
>
>By the way, I sniffered the network traffic on the Windows ME laptop
>using ethereal and discovered that the router send about 10 SNMP TRAPV1
>events *per second* into my LAN. If I recall it correctly this used to
>be much less before I integrated the new laptop into the LAN.
>
>
>Many thanks for any useful replies.
>Torsten Mielke
I suspect a problem with the network card driver program. Download
and install the latest ME-compatible driver from the manufacturer's
web site.
I'd also do a complete spyware and antivirus scan.
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