On 4 Dec 99, at 16:07, Doug Simmons wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is hardware or software problem.
>
> 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?

  Can you pop up an MS-DOS prompt and run "ipconfig /all >foo.txt",
and then post the foo.txt file?  That will show us all the info in
winipcfg, and more, in plain text form.

David G

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