[ale] OT: Windows NIC problem...

[Jason Day]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:59:25PM -0500, David S. Jackson wrote:
[snip]
> I know this is a difficult-to-answer generic question, but aside from me
> having a bad NIC, I wonder what else I can test?  (The hub works fine;
> I've moved the connection around to different "good" ports on the hub
> with the same result.)

Try a different network cable.

On the windows box, open a command prompt and type:
   ping 127.0.0.1
   ping <ip address>
If both of those commands work (no request timed out messages), then
your NIC driver is probably working correctly.  You could still have a
bad NIC though.

HTH,
Jason
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