cannot connect XP to router

I made the cable up myself, so I did doubt it initially. However I have also taken the router to the room where the XP PC is and used a known working cable with no different results.

The xbox's IP I'm not sure of, though it shouldn't have any influence when it is switched off right? I can check it when I get the new router if it might help resolve the problem.
 
If the xbox is off, it shouldn't matter.

Can you ping your router from your ubuntu? (Maybe the router has ping replies turned off)

When both are plugged in, can you ping between your ubuntu and landlord's XP? (The router should switch between its lan ports with no filtering - unless it has VLANs or MAC address filtering set up.)

The other thing to check is firewall software on the XP machine. Windows, Zonealarm, Comodo, that kind of thing. It may be blocking the 192.168. range.
 
It doesn't matter if you load SP3 over Vanilla, SP1, SP2 or a fresh install with a SP3 disc. You still have to activate the wire autoconfig, as per the link posted. MS made it that way, only they will know why they did it.
 
Can you ping your router from your ubuntu? (Maybe the router has ping replies turned off)
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That is a good question; I will look into it with the new router. I never tried to ping the router in Ubuntu since I could access its config web-page from the start. I will also check if the two PCs can ping each other.

Thanks for the info snail.

I will definitaly post results once I get a new router. Don't know how long that will be though...

Once again thank you all for the help!
 
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izakmarais said:
Thanks for the info snail.

I will definitaly post results once I get a new router. Don't know how long that will be though...

Once again thank you all for the help!
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You can actually live without internet? :eek:

hehe ;) :D :p
 
The other thing to check is firewall software on the XP machine. Windows, Zonealarm, Comodo, that kind of thing. It may be blocking the 192.168. range.
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Only standard windows firewall, and I did try switching it off to no effect. There is also AVG, but as far as I could tell it did not have any firewall functionality...

Haha, luckily I am going away for the next two weekends so I wont be needing the internet that badly ;-) .
 
Try ipconfig /all and post the results?

bekdik said:
on your xp box, run cmd, then from the cmd line, run ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew
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Try "ipconfig /all" without the quotes and post the results?
 
I updated a laptop to SP3 this morning.

First things first, I enabled Wired Autoconfig as suggested, in the hopes that I won't experience the same SP3 problem with no connectivity.

I was browsing the net for about 10 minutes then all connection was lost, but the LAN connection with the router was established.

Upon restarting XP, restarting DNS services, and DHCP even resetting Winsock, nothing worked.

I then applied a static IP to the connection and the router as the default gateway and primary DNS, then the connection worked again.

This means that either DHCP or DNS is the cause of this in SP3. I'll google and report back if I find anything.

tera
 
Interesting to hear other SP3 problems. I'm expecting my replacement router on Thursday.
 
izakmarais said:
Interesting to hear other SP3 problems. I'm expecting my replacement router on Thursday.
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I googled a bit, but I'm sort of lost between everything. There's no one quick fix method which I've seen.

Edit: looking at the method I described to reset the Winsock files, I didn't do it correctly, so that might of fixed it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314067 (clear ARP as well)
 
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I just received word my replacement router is ready. I'll try all the advice and let you know tomorrow. *fingers crossed*
 
Good news, the problem is solved! :D

It was a combination of 2 or possibly 3 errors.

1) The router does not run a DHCP server in bridge mode.
2) The cable I made up was wrong :o
[3) wire autoconfig was not enabeled]

So, previously, when I had taken the router up and tested with the shorter cable it still gave limited or no connectivity because it had been in bridge mode. This had led me to conclude that the cable was correct. This time I kept the modem in normal mode first and switched to bridge after everything worked. In bridge XP moans about limited or no connectivity because it isn't getting an IP and I can't ping the router or access its interface, but I can still connect via PPPoE. I will try forcing the IP later to fix this minor issue.

I had been under the impression that, for a "straight" CAT5 cable, the sequence of the colours are not important as long as the two ends of the cable match. While this is true for very short cables, for longer cables, the twisted pairs need to be in a certain order for electromagnetic noise cancellation.
 
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