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IP address got messed up while on vacation attempting to connect to Et

Started by acmatters , Sep 07 2008 07:43 AM

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acmatters

Posted 07 September 2008 - 07:43 AM

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We were never successful in connecting our laptop to the hotel's ethernet. In the process, we followed a cheat sheet the hotel provided (as we really don't know what we were doing!) and performed a release and renew of the IP address. Now back home and unable to connect to our wireless internet.

Ethernet adater Local Area Connection:
Media State ... Cable Disconnected

When I type in ipconfig/release, I get:
No operation can be performed on adapter Local Area Connection as this connection has its media/cable disconnected.

Any suggestions as to how to proceed from here? I'm sure you probably need more information. Just let me know what that is.

Thanks! (P.S. The OS is Windows 2000)

Edited by acmatters, 07 September 2008 - 07:45 AM.