MSI K7N2Delta-L Win XP Home SP2 AutoUpdates AMD 2400 1Gig Crucial PC2100 1 120Gig/1 18Gig Linksys Wireless LAN card, RealtekNIC, Firewire For years I've had my cable modem connected to a desktop PC using that NIC on my PCI port with no trouble. (I also have an onboard NIC that's never worked for me, and still has a !confilct in device mgr) Realtek NIC worked fine with Comcast cable modem and Internet sharing worked fine off my Linsys Wireless B router to a laptop, etc. Recently I decided to connect WIRELESSLY using the wireless lan card FROM MY DESKTOP to the Router. This has worked fine too. last night I was trying to connect to a new device via that Realtek NIC and I'm getting "Little or No Connectivity" warnings from XP! The Buffalo LS software searches for the device on the network as part of the setup process. SOMETIMES it sees it, sometimes it doesn't, but when I get to the part where the software is setting up DHCP for the drive, it fails to obtain an IP address. I try to run IPCONFIG and get no details...just "Windows IP Configuration", or something like that. I try to ping the default IP for the Link Station with no response, can't http to it either... * I've tried multiple PCI ports * Tried updating the driver * Tried uninstalling and reinstalling the NIC tried that onboard NIC I need to connect directly (not through my wireless setup) for this situation, so want to get this to work. Could the problem be that NIC is set to DHCP from when I was using it with the cable modem and it can't GIVE AN IP to the Link Station? Could I have a TCP IP stack issue? I know it's not the drive because I also was not able to connect to a Savin printer that I have that I WAS ALWAYS able to connect to before I started connecting wirelessly through the Linksys NIC. Thanks in advance, you guys have come through for me serveral times over the years!

The NIC cannot give an address. Set both ends manually.

Concerning the onboard nic, did you enable it in the bios and install the drivers for it? Could be your nic died with the pci slot switching. Did you unplug the power before going so? Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.