When you say that the adapter has no address, do you mean no MAC address?
Also what is the IP he is being assigned?  If it is 169.xxx.xxx.xxx it is
Windows 98 auto-config address, and not one being assigned by the DHCP
server.  If the card has no MAC address (Possible the ROM on the NIC got
messed up somehow, although after working with hundreds of NIC cards of
various brands I have never seen this happen) it would be impossible for a
DHCP server to assign him an address.  If his ROM is bad on the NIC there
is no way to assign it an address as far as I know.  It would certainly
something that would be covered under the card manufacturers warranty.


>>My son running a Pentium III 400 home-built machine with a generic Ethernet
>>card, using Win 98 on a collegiate network.  He can get on the network and
>>can see other machines in network neighborhood. However he cannot query
>>other machines either by browser, ping or get mail.  Using winipcfg he can
>>see that his ethernet card has an IP address assigned but the adapter does
>>not have an address.  I feel that this is the root of the problem even
>>though I am very weak on networks.  There is an IP address and all other
>>network data there but not adapter address.  He has tried releasing and
>>renewing all with the same results.
>
>>Is the lack of adapter address the problem, and if so, how does he get one
>>assigned?
>>
>>Doug
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