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A7N8X DELUXe Lan Problem
Hi to all,
I just bought a mobo A7N8X DELUXe and I use it with amd 2800+ barton and w2k. I tried to make a little lan with a cross cable to a laptop but it do not work with both the 3com and nvidia onboard cards. I allready tested the cable and it's ok. The two lan are enable in bios, the drivers are correct. When the two pc are connected the icon in right tray say that the pc-lan is connected at 100Mb but no packet is received, only trasmitted. So I can't neither ping the two pc each other. What's wrong? Is something missing? Can someone help me? Thank a lot Stefano |
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Elteto wrote:
Hi to all, I just bought a mobo A7N8X DELUXe and I use it with amd 2800+ barton and w2k. I tried to make a little lan with a cross cable to a laptop but it do not work with both the 3com and nvidia onboard cards. I allready tested the cable and it's ok. The two lan are enable in bios, the drivers are correct. When the two pc are connected the icon in right tray say that the pc-lan is connected at 100Mb but no packet is received, only trasmitted. So I can't neither ping the two pc each other. What's wrong? Is something missing? Can someone help me? Thank a lot Stefano What IP address did you give each machine if any? |
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Elteto wrote:
Hi to all, I just bought a mobo A7N8X DELUXe and I use it with amd 2800+ barton and w2k. I tried to make a little lan with a cross cable to a laptop but it do not work with both the 3com and nvidia onboard cards. I allready tested the cable and it's ok. The two lan are enable in bios, the drivers are correct. When the two pc are connected the icon in right tray say that the pc-lan is connected at 100Mb but no packet is received, only trasmitted. So I can't neither ping the two pc each other. What's wrong? Is something missing? Can someone help me? Thank a lot Stefano Try to ping 127.0.0.1 from each machine. If you can't, there is an issue with TCP which needs resolving first. Did you give each card an IP address? You won't have a DHCP server available to you, and they won't magically pick one up from anywhere else. To check the IP address of the cards, right-click on the Network Tray Icon, and select 'Status'. Click on 'Support', and it will show you your IP address. If the IP addresses are in the format 169.254.x.x, it won't work; Windows generates these addresses when it cannot find a DHCP enabled network, and these addresses are totally useless! If you do get 169.254.x.x addresses, you need to manually configure TCP/IP, doing the following (I'm going to assume XP, because it's different across differing versions of Windows); 1. Right-click on the tray icon, and select 'Status' 2. Click on the button 'Properties'. The Local Area Network Connection dialog box will open. 3. In the box titled 'This connection uses the following items:', find and highlight the entry for 'Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)', and click Properties. 4. Tick the radio button 'Use the following IP address', and enter the following details; IP Address: 192.168.1.1 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 5. Leave the default gateway and DNS entries blank (worry about them when your network gets more complex) 6. Click OK twice to leave the Local Area Network Connection dialog boxes. 7. Check the IP address of your card; it should now be 192.168.1.1. Once you've done that on the first machine, you need to do it on the second. Note that each machine needs a different IP address, so give the second machine the address of 192.168.1.2. Note also that if your laptop is used on an office network at a different location, make the changes above into the 'Alternate Configuration' tab in the TCP/IP settings (change from 'Automatic Private Address' to 'User Configured'. It will then still work on the office network, which probably does have a DHCP server. You should now be able to ping your machines from each other. HTH, Pete. |
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"Peter Connolly" wrote in message ...
Elteto wrote: Hi to all, I just bought a mobo A7N8X DELUXe and I use it with amd 2800+ barton and w2k. I tried to make a little lan with a cross cable to a laptop but it do not work with both the 3com and nvidia onboard cards. I allready tested the cable and it's ok. The two lan are enable in bios, the drivers are correct. When the two pc are connected the icon in right tray say that the pc-lan is connected at 100Mb but no packet is received, only trasmitted. So I can't neither ping the two pc each other. What's wrong? Is something missing? Can someone help me? Thank a lot Stefano Try to ping 127.0.0.1 from each machine. If you can't, there is an issue with TCP which needs resolving first. Did you give each card an IP address? You won't have a DHCP server available to you, and they won't magically pick one up from anywhere else. To check the IP address of the cards, right-click on the Network Tray Icon, and select 'Status'. Click on 'Support', and it will show you your IP address. If the IP addresses are in the format 169.254.x.x, it won't work; Windows generates these addresses when it cannot find a DHCP enabled network, and these addresses are totally useless! If you do get 169.254.x.x addresses, you need to manually configure TCP/IP, doing the following (I'm going to assume XP, because it's different across differing versions of Windows); 1. Right-click on the tray icon, and select 'Status' 2. Click on the button 'Properties'. The Local Area Network Connection dialog box will open. 3. In the box titled 'This connection uses the following items:', find and highlight the entry for 'Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)', and click Properties. 4. Tick the radio button 'Use the following IP address', and enter the following details; IP Address: 192.168.1.1 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 5. Leave the default gateway and DNS entries blank (worry about them when your network gets more complex) 6. Click OK twice to leave the Local Area Network Connection dialog boxes. 7. Check the IP address of your card; it should now be 192.168.1.1. Once you've done that on the first machine, you need to do it on the second. Note that each machine needs a different IP address, so give the second machine the address of 192.168.1.2. Note also that if your laptop is used on an office network at a different location, make the changes above into the 'Alternate Configuration' tab in the TCP/IP settings (change from 'Automatic Private Address' to 'User Configured'. It will then still work on the office network, which probably does have a DHCP server. You should now be able to ping your machines from each other. HTH, Pete. Thank you Pete, Sorry but I forgot to explain in the first message that I had configurated the tcp address like following: 3com ethernet control ip: 192.168.0.3 nVidia nforce ip: 192.168.0.1 lap top : 192.168.0.2 The situation is very strange because every lan device, even the laptop card (that works properly at office), seems to be able to transmit packets but not to receive. When I put the mouse over the network tray icon I see the following: speed: 100Mb Sent: a increasing number Received: 0 Do you think that can be a bios problem? the mobo is really new! I tried also to disable one ethernet device from bios and see if the other alone could work, but nothing, same problem. I feel bad if I have to use the lap link parallel cable to transfer my gigabig files from one pc to the other. Thanks a lot and ciao Stefano |
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Grazie Gino,
I allready tried to disable both the devices but it seems that nothing change, they behave the same. I tried too uninstall 3com drivers and disable the nic in the bios but nVidia does not work anyway. I thing I'm gonna buy a pci network device and uninstall both 3com and nVidia. It's a pity because the rest of the mobo is really good. I preffer do not manage with the flash bios (and it's rel.1007, I thing the newest). I'm wating an answer from asus technical support too, hope they can tell me something. If you, or someone else, have another suggest it is very appreciate. Ciao Stefano "Gino Zantafio" wrote in message ... On my computer: With both LAN enabled in the BIOS, 3Com doesn't work, Nvidia is OK. When only one, whetever it is, it works perfectly. You don't tell what LAN adaptor fails, 3Com or Nvidia , If nvidia, check these links: http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=150240 http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/view...=0&postorder=a sc&start=45&sid=19978a81c4c649c742b2e5ac943e70a3 If 3Com, I don't have a clue, still looking for any ! |
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Unfortunately, I don't have any valuable information more.
Did you search yahoo for asus & 3com & fail or similar ? Other question: Do you have the same protocols on both computers ? With different OS, sometimes netbeui helps. Do your two computers belong to the same workgroup ? Good luck "Elteto" a écrit dans le message news: ... Grazie Gino, I allready tried to disable both the devices but it seems that nothing change, they behave the same. I tried too uninstall 3com drivers and disable the nic in the bios but nVidia does not work anyway. I thing I'm gonna buy a pci network device and uninstall both 3com and nVidia. It's a pity because the rest of the mobo is really good. I preffer do not manage with the flash bios (and it's rel.1007, I thing the newest). I'm wating an answer from asus technical support too, hope they can tell me something. If you, or someone else, have another suggest it is very appreciate. Ciao Stefano "Gino Zantafio" wrote in message ... On my computer: With both LAN enabled in the BIOS, 3Com doesn't work, Nvidia is OK. When only one, whetever it is, it works perfectly. You don't tell what LAN adaptor fails, 3Com or Nvidia , If nvidia, check these links: http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=150240 http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/view...=0&postorder=a sc&start=45&sid=19978a81c4c649c742b2e5ac943e70a3 If 3Com, I don't have a clue, still looking for any ! |
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(Arnie Berger) wrote in message . com...
(Elteto) wrote in message . com... Hi to all, I just bought a mobo A7N8X DELUXe and I use it with amd 2800+ barton and w2k. I tried to make a little lan with a cross cable to a laptop but it do not work with both the 3com and nvidia onboard cards. I allready tested the cable and it's ok. The two lan are enable in bios, the drivers are correct. When the two pc are connected the icon in right tray say that the pc-lan is connected at 100Mb but no packet is received, only trasmitted. So I can't neither ping the two pc each other. What's wrong? Is something missing? Can someone help me? Thank a lot Stefano This may be dumb question, but are you sure that your cross cable is configured correctly? You should be able to at least ping the other computer. ab Hi Arnie, Yes, too bad I have to say, I tested the cable connecting two other pc together and it works very well. Yesterday I made another test: I connected the two onboard nic (3com and Nvidia) together with the same cross cable making a loop on the same pc. Incredible! They sent and received each other very well. So I'm going to think that is the laptop's nic that does not like to communicate with 3com or nvidia nic, even if I tried to connect the laptop with another laptop with the same crosscable and everything was perfect. I have to make the last test before to go to the vendor and ask for change the mobo: connect with a normal cable and a little hub. If you another suggestion, it is appreciate Thanks Stefano |
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