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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
In common with many other problems of this ilk, can you remove Big Bad Bill's stuff from the equation and boot a live linux CD.
These will usually have a DHCP client built in and switched on. So power down everything, attach PC to modem/router whatever with proper cat5 cable, crossover or straight as required, power up and boot from CD with live linux distrib in it. If this gets a connection that works then it proves that the hardware is OK and it's something in windoze that's the problem.
You can check settings in linux using ifconfig -a from a shell prompt, may need to be root, or there is probably some form of config tool.
This will not touch your hard drive so should be totally safe.
I've never seen a USB network connection so can't comment on what you should see for that in either windoze or Linux.
Once you know the hardware is OK then you have to see where in windoze the problem lies. Maybe turn off USB totally in BIOS then boot to windoze, no good if you have USB keyboard/mouse.
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Where do I get the Linux cd from? Thanks.