LAN not connected

Hi guys, so happy to find this forum. I have looked for this exact issue but so far haven't been able to come up with a working solution.

I installed Win 7 a month ago. Final beta build. Install went smoothly. No issues until a week ago. LAN is no longer connected. I tried the usual fixes ( uninstalled and rebooted, unchecked auto detect ). It says install failed after re-boot. I also tried command prompt ip reset but don't know how to run this as administrator.

My lappie is also running the same build ( HP ) with no issues at all. The 3rd. machine on the network is running XP Pro. My ISP knows nothing about Win 7 so won't troubleshoot.

I'd appreciate any help you all can offer.

inane said:

Hi guys, so happy to find this forum. I have looked for this exact issue but so far haven't been able to come up with a working solution.

I installed Win 7 a month ago. Final beta build. Install went smoothly. No issues until a week ago. LAN is no longer connected. I tried the usual fixes ( uninstalled and rebooted, unchecked auto detect ). It says install failed after re-boot. I also tried command prompt ip reset but don't know how to run this as administrator.

My lappie is also running the same build ( HP ) with no issues at all. The 3rd. machine on the network is running XP Pro. My ISP knows nothing about Win 7 so won't troubleshoot.

I'd appreciate any help you all can offer.

Hi and welcome to sevenforums.

More than likely its a driver issue. can you go into device manager (type device manager in search) and look for your network adapters. there should be two wired and wifi. Is the wifi there? does it have a yellow triangle over it?

let me know what the results are

Ken

Unplug your LAN cord. Plug it back in.

Test.

Simple, works sometimes - long history.

*More than likely its a driver issue. can you go into device manager (type device manager in search) and look for your network adapters. there should be two wired and wifi. Is the wifi there? does it have a yellow triangle over it?*



Thanks for the welcome. DM shows that only my wifi is connected. When I go to properties of my 1394, is shows not connected. I've tried uninstalling and rebooting, no luck. DM tells me that installation failed.

1394 is firewire. Do you have a firewire network connection?

DM shows only the wireless adapter ( Marvell Yukon 8056 ), nothing else. Properties of Marvell show "this device is working properly". No yellow mark on this adapter.

Other devices show Ethernet Controller with a yellow ? as well as SM Bus Controller with a yellow ? .

When I look at network connections, nothing shows there but the disconnected 1394.

You seriously need a driver update (SM Bus). All other drivers depend on this. Then, of course, you need to update the NIC driver.

I got your back, Darth Z.