aldiboronti
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Just took delivery of a Sony NR21 Vaio laptop today, Intel T2330 Dual Core, 2048Mb RAM, 200Gb Hard Drive, Vista Home Premium.
At the moment we have an old non-wireless laptop connected via Ethernet to cable broadband. We're awaiting delivery of a Buffalo DSL router in a few days which will hopefully enable us to use the broadband connection for both computers. However, I had the bright idea of unplugging the old laptop and trying to use the cable modem directly with the new laptop.
I had the cable modem drivers on an old disc, so I put that in, plugged in the ethernet connection and asked Vista to establish a new connection. So through the motions it goes, do I want to set up the Vaio Network, yes, yes, go ahead.
End result. When I start up IE the computer tells me it's offline. Then it tries to dial up the broadband connection. Of course it fails, there's no phone line attached. Then I ask Vista to Repair The Connection. It eventually tells me that Windows can't do that.
I have a terrible feeling that I've screwed up the network configuration. Is there a simple way of putting things right?
At the moment we have an old non-wireless laptop connected via Ethernet to cable broadband. We're awaiting delivery of a Buffalo DSL router in a few days which will hopefully enable us to use the broadband connection for both computers. However, I had the bright idea of unplugging the old laptop and trying to use the cable modem directly with the new laptop.
I had the cable modem drivers on an old disc, so I put that in, plugged in the ethernet connection and asked Vista to establish a new connection. So through the motions it goes, do I want to set up the Vaio Network, yes, yes, go ahead.
End result. When I start up IE the computer tells me it's offline. Then it tries to dial up the broadband connection. Of course it fails, there's no phone line attached. Then I ask Vista to Repair The Connection. It eventually tells me that Windows can't do that.
I have a terrible feeling that I've screwed up the network configuration. Is there a simple way of putting things right?
