Networking on vista. no ip address aquired.

my friend has an hp laptop with windows vista. i went through the whole list
of networking fixes with her and none of them worked. the one involving
regedit, the battery saving ones, all of them. her laptop did work for a
short period of time at my house, but not at her and not when she initially
brought it here. are there any new fixes to try for a problem where the
computer can see other computers on the network but the internet. (local only
in network and sharing centre)

Can you ping a public IP? if yes, can you ping yahoo.com? This search result may help,

How to troubleshoot internet access issuesNone of the networking computers can access the Internet. ... Related Topics. Can’t access the Internet via USB after enabling NIC for network ...
http://www.howtonetworking.com/Inter...netaccess0.htm


Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Adriano" <Adriano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F41F5B86-C0A9-4220-8D56-08D16C5948B4@microsoft.com...
my friend has an hp laptop with windows vista. i went through the whole list
of networking fixes with her and none of them worked. the one involving
regedit, the battery saving ones, all of them. her laptop did work for a
short period of time at my house, but not at her and not when she initially
brought it here. are there any new fixes to try for a problem where the
computer can see other computers on the network but the internet. (local only
in network and sharing centre)

no she can't we tried that.

"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> Can you ping a public IP? if yes, can you ping yahoo.com? This search result may help,
>
> How to troubleshoot internet access issuesNone of the networking computers can access the Internet. ... Related Topics. Can’t access the Internet via USB after enabling NIC for network ...
> http://www.howtonetworking.com/Inter...netaccess0.htm
>
>
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
> "Adriano" <Adriano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F41F5B86-C0A9-4220-8D56-08D16C5948B4@microsoft.com...
> my friend has an hp laptop with windows vista. i went through the whole list
> of networking fixes with her and none of them worked. the one involving
> regedit, the battery saving ones, all of them. her laptop did work for a
> short period of time at my house, but not at her and not when she initially
> brought it here. are there any new fixes to try for a problem where the
> computer can see other computers on the network but the internet. (local only
> in network and sharing centre)

i just realized there is no edit. i also should have mentioned that i use the
router for 5 other computers, 3 of them wireless 2 wired. and they all work.
only her vista laptop can't connect. my vista desktop can connect and the 4
other xp computers can connect.

Posting back with the result of ipconfig /all may help.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Adriano" <Adriano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:716FF679-3145-410A-89A0-22F91B41B26D@microsoft.com...
i just realized there is no edit. i also should have mentioned that i use the
router for 5 other computers, 3 of them wireless 2 wired. and they all work.
only her vista laptop can't connect. my vista desktop can connect and the 4
other xp computers can connect.

A couple things -- first, please see what NDF says about this problem.
(Right-click the network icon in the system tray, and choose Diagnose.)

Also, you say that you can see other computers on the network -- are you
able to establish connections to them, or is this based only on the status
icon?

"Adriano" <Adriano@discussions.microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:F41F5B86-C0A9-4220-8D56-08D16C5948B4@microsoft.com...
> my friend has an hp laptop with windows vista. i went through the whole
> list
> of networking fixes with her and none of them worked. the one involving
> regedit, the battery saving ones, all of them. her laptop did work for a
> short period of time at my house, but not at her and not when she
> initially
> brought it here. are there any new fixes to try for a problem where the
> computer can see other computers on the network but the internet. (local
> only
> in network and sharing centre)