Re: Weird ipconfig information from a wireless network card

"Mr TVTL" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:030758df-8a7a-43ce-9110-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi there,
>
> I'm on my father-in-law's laptop right now, because he mentioned that
> the wireless network card wasn't working. I eventually got it to work
> and am able to access the Internet, etc. with it (which is what I'm
> doing now), but there's one really odd quirk that I noticed in the
> ipconfig:
>
> Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:
>
>
>
> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
>
> Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 802.11g Network
> Adapter
>
> Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-19-7E-22-7D-06
>
> Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
>
> Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
>
> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100
>
> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
>
> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
>
> DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
>
> DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
>
> Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 07 ?????, 2010
> 07:57:01 ?.?
> Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 07 ?????, 2010 08:57:01 ?.?
>
> The question marks associated with the lease date are what shows up in
> the ipconfig output...they're not what I typed in at all.

I'd *guess* that the question marks should refer to the names of a month and
am/pm, and that it is trying to display these according to the current
locale settings. In which case I'd check the locale settings as it may be
that something is amis with the date formats which are set there.

Don't think its a reflection on the NIC, just something mis-configured in
windows.
--
Brian Cryer
http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian