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Cursed unidentified network - Win 7
Sorry folks....here we go again. I haven't been lazy, I have tried everything I can short of taking a shower with the laptop.
Win 7, my internet connection was fine for a couple of weeks, then I came across the cursed unidentified network. It is the only network I have, and is connected by cable to my modem.
I have tried flushing everything (bar laptop), renewing ip's, theres no french speaking problems (bonjour), ....I have read lots and tried all on here and other forums. Enable/disable, uninstall/reinstall, command prompt this and that.
I have spoken to HP support for two hours to no avail. After it initially started I got it back by changing public network to home network and re-booting. But I don't actually think that was it, and I think maybe it was just triggering another event. As such, I have been trying to solve this for 8 hours today....to no avail. Note here, whatever I set my network to (HOME/WORK) windows changes it back to public eventually (usually straight away).
All I can try and do is tell you anything funny I have noticed. If i manually input IP address etc in my adapter settings, it always drops the default gateway after rebooting. Saying this, i am not sure if i have to reboot after entering it, and if I don't, i still can't get a connection.
I managed to do an ipconfig /release at some stage, and it hung when trying to /renew. Then through an error something like: couldn’t contact dhcp server. (remembering I am swapping this hard wired connection to a XP laptop with no hassles at all). Now most of the time when I try to /release, I am told “The operation failed as no adapter is in the state permissible for this operation”.
HOLD THE PHONE. I started writing this last night, and got up this morning and now I can connect. But I need to solve this, I spent 8 hours trying to connect yesterday. So, while connected here is my ipconfig;
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Laptop
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : home
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) 82567LM Gigabit Network Connecti
on
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-24-81-B3-C5-EA
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.3(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, 1 September 2010 11:53:21 a.m.
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:53:21 a.m.
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4137:9e76:c75:215a:3447:d2b4(Prefe
rred)
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c75:215a:3447:d2b4%14(Preferred)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
Tunnel adapter isatap.home:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #3
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
(NOTE: I have IPv6 turned off).
So I thought I would try a /release /renew, with the following results;
C:\Users\User>ipconfig /release
Windows IP Configuration
An error occurred while releasing interface Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1 : The sy
stem cannot find the file specified.
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4137:9e76:c75:215a:3447:d2b4
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c75:215a:3447:d2b4%14
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::
Tunnel adapter isatap.home:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
C:\Users\User>ipconfig /renew
Windows IP Configuration
An error occurred while releasing interface Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1 : The sy
stem cannot find the file specified.
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.3
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::2c7c:38e:3f57:fefc%14
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::
Tunnel adapter isatap.{064D22AB-65E7-41D6-8054-4D314C6E9442}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Right. So i go back into my adapter settings, and copying given ipconfig information, manually set the ipconfig for IPv4. Result? No internet access and unidentified network again. Go back and check information I entered, and the is no info in Default Gateway again? This, without rebooting? I'm lost. Switch it back to auto-config, and got internet access, but it has changed my network to public, after i had just set it to home.
I don’t know if any of this helps, but I would appreciate some to solve this intermittent problem. And I apologise that I am no computer technician, but with the help of the internet can usually solve my problems. So therefore I am sorry if I am missing information anyone needs.
Thanks in advance, MM
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