TCP/IP Settings Not Saved With NIC?

I am having a bizarre problem... or at least one I haven't seen
before.

I have just installed WinME on a laptop. I downloaded and installed
the latest driver for my 3Com PCMCIA Ethernet card and that worked
fine. The card appears as a NIC and with no errors.

I went in to the Network section of Control Panel, same as
right-clicking on My Network Places, and I manually set the TCP/IP
address for the card (IP address, netmask, default gateway and DNS
servers). This works fine and whenever I go back in to Network, after
rebooting several times, all of the information is stored there
correctly.

However when I run IPCONFIG my Ethernet adaptors comes up with an IP
address of 0.0.0.0, netmask of 0.0.0.0 and default gateway of 0.0.0.0.
Of course this means that my Internet connection doesn't work on this
machine either as that passes through the gateway (router).

I can't ping any where as it appears as though I have no IP address.

I have gone back in to the network settings several times, modified
the IP address, made sure everything was correct and rebooted several
times.

The same problem/situation keeps coming back to haunt me.

What am I missing???

Sounds like a HOSTS file?
Do a search for files named HOSTS - no extension - and see what's inside
it.


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

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"Derek Erb" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am having a bizarre problem... or at least one I haven't seen
> before.
>
> I have just installed WinME on a laptop. I downloaded and installed
> the latest driver for my 3Com PCMCIA Ethernet card and that worked
> fine. The card appears as a NIC and with no errors.
>
> I went in to the Network section of Control Panel, same as
> right-clicking on My Network Places, and I manually set the TCP/IP
> address for the card (IP address, netmask, default gateway and DNS
> servers). This works fine and whenever I go back in to Network, after
> rebooting several times, all of the information is stored there
> correctly.
>
> However when I run IPCONFIG my Ethernet adaptors comes up with an IP
> address of 0.0.0.0, netmask of 0.0.0.0 and default gateway of 0.0.0.0.
> Of course this means that my Internet connection doesn't work on this
> machine either as that passes through the gateway (router).
>
> I can't ping any where as it appears as though I have no IP address.
>
> I have gone back in to the network settings several times, modified
> the IP address, made sure everything was correct and rebooted several
> times.
>
> The same problem/situation keeps coming back to haunt me.
>
> What am I missing???

HOSTS files normally translate names in to IP addresses. My problem
is that my NIC is not "taking" it's network configuration. The IP
addresses are not being assigned to the NIC nor the DNS and Gateway
information.

However I did go looking for my hosts file and found the standard
HOSTS.SAM and LMHOSTS.SAM files in the Windows directory. They
contain the standard info (127.0.0.1 = localhost in HOSTS and nothing
but comments in LMHOSTS).

I am baffled... and stuck...

I need to connect this computer to the network to continue the
installation and just can't get it to store the IP info...

(when all else fails....<g>)
http://www.careyholzman.com/netfixes.htm

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

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"Derek Erb" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> HOSTS files normally translate names in to IP addresses. My problem
> is that my NIC is not "taking" it's network configuration. The IP
> addresses are not being assigned to the NIC nor the DNS and Gateway
> information.
>
> However I did go looking for my hosts file and found the standard
> HOSTS.SAM and LMHOSTS.SAM files in the Windows directory. They
> contain the standard info (127.0.0.1 = localhost in HOSTS and nothing
> but comments in LMHOSTS).
>
> I am baffled... and stuck...
>
> I need to connect this computer to the network to continue the
> installation and just can't get it to store the IP info...

I found a "workaround" to my own problem. I'm not sure it's a
solution but it works.

By playing around, good ole trial and error, I found that by adding
the IPX/SPX protocol suddenly the IP information was bound to the NIC
and everything works perfectly.

It's not a solution - IPX is NOT a good protocol to use!
have you looked through Carey's site, yet?

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"Derek Erb" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) om...
> I found a "workaround" to my own problem. I'm not sure it's a
> solution but it works.
>
> By playing around, good ole trial and error, I found that by adding
> the IPX/SPX protocol suddenly the IP information was bound to the NIC
> and everything works perfectly.