"Network cable is unplugged" with a twist

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Here's the story:

My wife and I both hook up to a linksys router. Until
this morning everything worked fine for over a year.
Suddenly this morning my wife gets "Network cable is
unplugged" on her onboard network connection.

I've tried a known good cable, I've switched ports on the
router (My machine works on all ports, hers gets the
message on all ports), I've re-installed latest drivers,
I've uninstalled/re-installed the network connection
under device manager. I've tried disabling the "detect
media source" registry key (I think that's what it was
called) and several other solutions I've looked up on the
net. I tried unplugging the machine for 30 minutes, then
restarting.

When a cable is plugged in, the link light comes on the
card, and the router sees the connection, but same
message.

Any ideas left? I'm totally baffled.

As a kicker, I had a hell of a time getting a second NIC
card to work once I installed it in her machine too. All
settings looked good and it should have worked, but I
couldn't even ping the router. After trying the same
things 10 times I eventually got it to work, though I
don't know how.

I hate computers sometimes. Many times I try the same
exact thing loads of times, and 9 times it doesn't work
but the tenth time it will!

Win XP Pro all altest updates (SP1)
Aopen MB with Intel Pro 100 onboard NIC

 

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if you haven't already, linksys has a firmware upgrade for routers at thier
website dated march '04

i was having trouble with my surfboard cable modem constantly rebooting
after upgrading to xp.. that seemed to give the network what it needed to
know to run smoothly once again.

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"Heath Allyn" <contact@heathallyn.com> wrote in message
news:8e2001c4858e$40c59f80$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Here's the story:
>
> My wife and I both hook up to a linksys router. Until
> this morning everything worked fine for over a year.
> Suddenly this morning my wife gets "Network cable is
> unplugged" on her onboard network connection.
>
> I've tried a known good cable, I've switched ports on the
> router (My machine works on all ports, hers gets the
> message on all ports), I've re-installed latest drivers,
> I've uninstalled/re-installed the network connection
> under device manager. I've tried disabling the "detect
> media source" registry key (I think that's what it was
> called) and several other solutions I've looked up on the
> net. I tried unplugging the machine for 30 minutes, then
> restarting.
>
> When a cable is plugged in, the link light comes on the
> card, and the router sees the connection, but same
> message.
>
> Any ideas left? I'm totally baffled.
>
> As a kicker, I had a hell of a time getting a second NIC
> card to work once I installed it in her machine too. All
> settings looked good and it should have worked, but I
> couldn't even ping the router. After trying the same
> things 10 times I eventually got it to work, though I
> don't know how.
>
> I hate computers sometimes. Many times I try the same
> exact thing loads of times, and 9 times it doesn't work
> but the tenth time it will!
>
> Win XP Pro all altest updates (SP1)
> Aopen MB with Intel Pro 100 onboard NIC