Not easily done since the cables are of dramatically different lengths
with one of them routed through the wall. But I can do it by moving the
laptop into the office and using a different cable. Just not now since
Mrs. laptop user has had enough of my debugging exercises on her machine
today.
But, I really fail to see how the cables could be involved when each
machine can ping the router.
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/31/2011 7:18 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
> Switch the cables between the two machines and see if the ping results
> follow the cable. That would indicate it might be a bad cable.
>
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 14:43, Chuck Norcutt
> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Under Windows I reset the TCPIP stacks on both machines according to the
>> fixit article Jez referenced below. Absolutely no change.
>>
>> But then I finally recalled (I'm a little slow) that both of these
>> machines have Linux installed. So I rebooted into Linux on both
>> machines and tried pinging from Linux to Linux. I get exactly the same
>> results as Windows. The laptop can ping the router but can't ping the
>> desktop. The desktop can ping both.
>>
>> So, what does this mean? Does it mean there's a hardware problem or
>> does it mean that Windows has diddled some registers in the network
>> cards that Linux is simply using as is?
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
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