Vista Basic doesn't see router

posted by  sfiroz (90)  11 months ago (www.vistax64.com)

New Acer laptop with Vista basic. Wired router is a Linksys BEFSR41 V3.
Plugged in my cat5 cable and nothing. The internal NIC card does not see the
router. Checked the cable and it's ok. Then to check the card, plugged the
modem directly in to the card and it saw the modem. So that's ok.
Then I checked ipconfig /all and saw that no address was assigned, so there
was no reason to do a release and a renew. Frankly, I'm at a complete loss.
Any suggestions?

Oh, and just as an aside, when you do an ipconfig /release it says that that