'Unidentified network' while trying to connect to the internet

Hey guys!
I just moved back home and installed my PC. I have a static ip adress from my isp to connect to the internet using a LAN cable. The internet works fine on my notebook with the static ip's i am posting this through it.
My PC has two onboard LAN cards (P5Q-Deluxe MB), one Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller and one Marvell Yukon PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller. On my notebook i have a similar Marvell Yukon PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
I have downloaded the newest drivers from the Asus website, installed them, didin't work, installed the latest driver's from Marvell Yukon Website didin't work either.
The internet has worked properly before on this PC but with 7 x86 i am now running 7 x64 Enterprise (my notebook is x64 home premium). Another thing i should mention is that i coudn't get it to work with linux either, no ping replies.
I have tryied disabling/enabling one card at a time and no success. Could it be a hardware problem, since on my notebook works fine? Could both LAN cards break down simultaneously? I get the same details when typing ipconfig on both my notebook and my PC. If you have any solutions for me i would be very gratefull! What could it be the problem?
Thank you for reading this!

You can try this link first to see if it relates to your particular problem.
Windows 7 Unidentified Network, Limited Access, No Internet Connection Problem Resolved

This one might also help.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71408-unidentified-networks-set-private-public.html?filter

If you can post your ipconfig /all screen shot I might be able to help you more.

Unfortunately that was not the solution

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Unfortunately that was not the solution

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Which is why I asked for an ipconfig /all screen shot?

You would need to type those commands "ipconfig /all" without the quotes into your command prompt then post the screen shot here for me to look at like in the picture below.

Do you have and software from apple installed on your system such as Itunes or adobe photo suite?

Two questions.

One, are you also hard coding the ip address and if so, is it the same address as the notebook?

Two: Would you put one network card for testing purposes?

I don't have any apple software installed, sorry i forgot about the pic


Also i should mention that today i installed a Linksys WRT120N, but after properly configuring the device i could get no internet nor on my pc nor on my notebook, the WLAN worked ok. I have changed the nip and the whole cable from the modem to my router and pc and still no luck.

Thanks for posting the ipconfig paulie.

Did you enter your DNS servers manually because it doesn't look like your DNS is coming from the default gateway through the router. It usually works best to assign the DNS using the routers set up page.

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I have tryied disabling/enabling one card at a time and no success. Could it be a hardware problem, since on my notebook works fine? Could both LAN cards break down simultaneously? I get the same details when typing ipconfig on both my notebook and my PC.

Are you saying that the ipconfig /all shows the same IP address on both machines? If that is the case then DHCP isn't working right or the same static IP's have been assiged to both machines.

Sorry, I meant would you PULL one network card for testing purposes.

And did you say if you hardcoded the ip address on the pc?

And... did your problems start after the Linksys router?

Also, what encryption are you using on the Linksys? Try turning it off for testing purposes (but return to WPA2-personal when solved).

And... can you ping your router?

Did you enter your DNS servers manually because it doesn't look like your DNS is coming from the default gateway through the router. It usually works best to assign the DNS using the routers set up page.

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I don't have the router installed now, but when it was installed i typed 192.168.1.1 in chrome and choosed static ip and entered the dns adresses there, the LAN card was set to obtain ip adress automaticly, and it did recieve 192.168.1.101 from the router but the internet was still not working.

Are you saying that the ipconfig /all shows the same IP address on both machines? If that is the case then DHCP isn't working right or the same static IP's have been assiged to both machines.

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I am not running the two machines simulateously, i plug them in one at a time, for the notebook everything is ok, for the PC i get Unidentified Network, no internet access.

Sorry, I meant would you PULL one network card for testing purposes.

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I cant do that, both cards are onboard, i did disable one at a time from bios though.

And did you say if you hardcoded the ip address on the pc?

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I entered the ips manually if that's what hardcoded means

And... did your problems start after the Linksys router?

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No, i bought the router because i will eventually need it and i thought it would possibly be a solution.

Also, what encryption are you using on the Linksys? Try turning it off for testing purposes (but return to WPA2-personal when solved).

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I will try without the encryption as you said...

And... can you ping your router?

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Will try that now

I tryied without encryption. No luck, but i do get PING REPLYIES.

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I don't have the router installed now, but when it was installed i typed 192.168.1.1 in chrome and choosed static ip and entered the dns adresses there, the LAN card was set to obtain ip adress automaticly, and it did recieve 192.168.1.101 from the router but the internet was still not working.

I'm not sure why you would be typing your default gateway into chrome? I see lots of conflicts here that confuse me.

Why aren't you using a router, then you say you are? You also mentioned using static IP for one thing then DHCP for the other?

You can customize your network all you want but if you start doing things like this the odds are that nothing will work right.

I suggest that you use a router and set it to use DHCP along with your network adaptors.

Okay, i might not have been all that explicit, sorry for my english and my lack of computer knowlege.
I have one modem from my ISP, from which i have a LAN cable into one of my LAN cards, with the same settings and the same card on my notebook the internet works fine while on the PC i get the Unidentified network message and i get no internet access. I have static ip's and only one cable so i use the PC and the notebook separately.

Why aren't you using a router, then you say you are? You also mentioned using static IP for one thing then DHCP for the other?

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I bought the router today because i thought if i connected my pc through it the internet will work, but i doesen't. I used to have internet without any router and there was no problem. I am sorry you must have misunderstood i am using only static ip's.

I'm not sure why you would be typing your default gateway into chrome? I see lots of conflicts here that confuse me.

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I thought that was the way for a router to be configured, you type in it's ip in your browser and you set yor static ip's for the internet in there, i do not know any other way for it to be configured.

I suggest that you use a router and set it to use DHCP along with your network adaptors.

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I have DHCP enabled please check the screen below, this one is with the router installed, the oter ipconfig was without it, just the cable.



Thank you!

So you just meant that you typed 192.168.1.1 into your browser to access your routers set up page, ok I get that part, sorry for the confusion.

That is fine however, you have manually set up both a static IP and DHCP on the same router, you also show a different default gateway for your static IP 86.125.124.1 and another for your DHCP 192.168.1.1.

If you really need to have a certain IP for one machine then you can use the DHCP reservation instead of static.


I'm also wondering how can you expect to have both of these PC's on the same network if you are using two different default gateways?

You are doing this the hard way but I'm not sure why? This configuration is not likely to work correctly.

Unless you have a really good reason for using static IP's and DHCP at the same time plus dual default gateway's I would go with one or the other, preferibly DHCP only and you have to use the same default gateway if you want to network those machines, accessing shares and so forth.

I can only recommend that you let your router use DHCP for this network "the easy way". You don't need to do much other than choose DHCP in the routers settings and also make sure DHCP is enabled in your IPv4 properties window for what ever network adaptor you are using.

I hate my ISP....
I typed in the MAC adress from my notebook into my router and now i have internet on my PC. I guess my stupid isp is alowing only one mac adress.
Thank you all for your help!

That doesn't sound quite right to me unless they have a one machine limit or something. You can also clone the mac address. I think I might reset the router and start from scratch using DHCP only because I think part of the problem might have been from using two different default gateways.

If use DHCP only i don't get any internet access, i must use static ip's. I had the MAC adress cloned to my PC and it didin't work, now i have set the MAC adress of my notebook and the internet works fine, i will contact my isp tomorrow and tell them about this.

That is strange indeed although even if using static IP's you would usually use the same default gateway if you want to network the machines.

As it stands, according to your last screen shot you had DHCP enabled but also had static IP info typed in as well, not to mention two completely different default gateways.

Maybe if you disabled DHCP it would help although I can't figure out why DHCP isn't working for you in the first place. Something is messed up here and it might be interesting to find out what it is.

I have just disabled DHCP, same error Unidentified network, with my PC's mac, with DHCP disabled and my notebook's MAC i have internet access.

Have you tried to update the firmware on your router yet Paulie?

Yes, i have the latest firmware, updated it just a couple oh hours ago. I guess the problem is from them, for allowing only one MAC adress to connect... a fried has told me he had a similar problem and he resolved it by calling the isp.