New laptop - connecting to internet

[blueivy]

The bit we are interested in is this:

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Etherne
Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-21-9B-CF-8E-EE
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

However it says that the network cable is not connected. I'm assuming it was connected to the router when you did that dump? Did you also disconnect the USB modem from your PC when you did that dump? Or, as I suspect ( :-)) did you connect the USB modem to your PC and were using it to post this message when you did the dump?

What to do is connect the cable to the router, make sure the lights are on on the PC and the router (as we discussed above) and then do ipconfig /all again.

[daviddd]

Hooorrraaayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We're away!!

My own new laptop arrived yesterday and I decided to try and run the Linksys setup software on it - and it managed the whole process first time, and after a bit of fiddling with the computer LAN settings both laptops are now working. Well, most of the time anyhow - the 512K seems insufficient to feed 2 hungry laptops both demanding internet pages; one of them times out to 'page not found' occasionally. Still, they are set up at last. Many thanks to you IT guys for your help - I've learnt quite a bit with your help, good on 'ya!