[DF Simmons]

Yesterday while at a clients home working on programming a remote control I noticed that the Netgear WG602WAP was malfunctioning. Because I had a little bit of trouble with this particular WAP previously, I called Netgear support and after an hour of boiler plate troubleshooting scripts the manufacturer issued an RMA. In the process of troubleshooting I connected my ACER laptop directly to the WAP to access the setup menus etc.... When I next tried to connect to the internet with the ACER (LAN connection), the NIC behaved as if it were malfunctioning. I checked with my network specialist and even though we could ping the card etc... he concluded that the NIC must have croaked. Today, I was back at the clients with a replacement WG602 and a different laptop. I successfully configured the WAP but when I returned home, I no longer have internet access. When I run the command ipconfig /release, the error message reads "Media disconnected, unable to run this operation" or words to that effect.
All diagnostics point to the card being in good working order but I cannot connect to the internet so that would suggest otherwise. I suspect that both NIC's are OK but I can't connect over the LAN. Thoughts and suggestions appreciated.

Edited by DF Simmons, 24 June 2009 - 09:46 PM.

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Hello again. Tried "release/renew" commands. this time the first command successfully executed but the "renew" command resulted in this error message "error occurred while renewing interface Wireless network connection. Unable to contact your DHCP server"

I do not have a wireless access point deployed here.

[DF Simmons]

Hello again. Tried "release/renew" commands. this time the first command successfully executed but the "renew" command resulted in this error message "error occurred while renewing interface Wireless network connection. Unable to contact your DHCP server"

I do not have a wireless access point deployed here.

[DF Simmons]

Ran "release/renew" again. this time I got info on both Wired and wireless ethernet adaptors. It gives me an appropriate address for the ethernet adapter but it DHCP is not enabled. I do not recall where to change that setting. Trust me I've been looking...

[Dan]

Hey DF Simmons,

It gives me an appropriate address for the ethernet adapter but it DHCP is not enabled. I do not recall where to change that setting. Trust me I've been looking...

• Click Start, select Run, type ncpa.cpl and press OK
• In the new window, right-click on your Network Connection and select Properties.
• Select Internet Protocol Version (TCP/IP) and then press the Properties button.
• Select the option Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically
• Press OK.

If this doesn't resolve your issue, please do the following:

Step 1 - Connectivity test:

• Press Start
• Select Run
• Type cmd and press OK
• In the new command prompt window, please type the following commands (*Note: each ping will take approximately 10 seconds to complete; wait for the command prompt to return before you type the next one. Also, the single '>' and double '>>' are intentional; please type the commands exactly as they appear):
  • ipconfig /all > C:\results.txt
  • route print >> C:\results.txt
  • ping 127.0.0.1 >> C:\results.txt
  • ping google.com >> C:\results.txt
  • ping 209.85.171.100 >> C:\results.txt
• Once the above commands have completed, navigate to your C: drive and open the text file results.txt -- please copy/paste the contents of this file into your next response.

Thanks,
- Dan

[DF Simmons]

Thanks Dan,
That worked on laptop #1. I had been in that menu a dozen times and just could not remember how to change TCP/IP properties. I remember resetting this when working on the WAP so that the machines would be on the same subnet, right? But in the case of the other laptop, I accessed the WAP through a router and did not manually reset the TCP/IP. I will look at the other laptop later today but I am curious how I managed to f^%# up the settings of the NIC just by browsing the address of the WAP to get into the menu?

Edited by DF Simmons, 25 June 2009 - 05:28 AM.