On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:10:51 -0400, "Peter Pan"
<pponvistaNOSPAM@MarcAlanNOSPAM.Info> wrote:

Peter Pan,
Thank you for your knowlegable and patient assistance. After
enableing and diableing a pot-load of stuff, wireing and unwireing
myriad systems, racking my and your brains for a solution, I finally
noticed that I had a blank "Use the following DNS Address" box.

My bad. Now I am smarter and stronger.

Thanks again.

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>"Jim" <nopenotnow.com> wrote in message
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>>>can they see themselves? both directly and by the network?
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>> I think you have something here. The wireless machine CAN see the
>> wired machine, but it can't see itself!!!
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>> Suggestions?
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>well, you have it narrowed way down, not the wired network machine, nor the
>router, nor the hardware part of the wireless machine, so it appears it's a
>network/software problem on the wireless machine.... (you can see the other
>machines on your network, but not yourself)
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>two suggestions, on the wireless machine, on your start menu do you have a
>connect to?or in your control panel select network connections, and just do
>a 'set up home or small office network"... sounds silly, will whack any
>intentional changes, but it restores/redoes anything that may have gotten
>whacky, and gives you a known point.... and you can always apply any
>intentional changes again... What good is keeping changes in if it doesn't
>work in the first place?
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>does your wireless machine have a wired port? if so, can you plug it in
>temporarily (for testing, that will force it to use different stuff, but let
>you know if it is the network itself or just the wireless network stuff) ...
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>will narrow the prob down even further (ie wireless/network/driver stuff on
>the wireless machine) trick now is to determine if it is wired/wireless/ or
>network problems, much easier to fix when you narrow down the problem to one
>thing to focus on....
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>as always, good luck, and hope this debugging stuff doesn't drive you over
>the edge, but if it's getting close, look at alt.suicide.... trust me, puter
>problems are nothing compared to what they face, and most people like the
>"it could be worse" comparison to their own problems.....
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