Re: Can a bad Etherlink card effect browser ability to access the net?

On 5/31/2009 1:45 PM GlowingBlueMist conferred with the ghost of Faye Wray and said:
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On 5/29/2009 12:56 PM JAD conferred with the ghost of Faye Wray and
said:
"Brian K" <brian1951BLOG@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am really in need of some help. Suddenly, I've lost the ability
to access the Internet with either Mozilla Firefox .x or IE 8.
I've done virus scans, gone to my ISP for hard codding IP
Addresses for gateway IP , Primary DNS and Secondary DNS IP
addresses. I've contacted Microsoft Update support to see if one
of the auto updates caused a problem. What I am wondering is could my Ethernet Card be the source of
this problem? While I can't access the Internet via my DSL
connection, I can access the net via dial-up. Rather than list a laundry list of specs which might confuse, I'll
happy to help you help me. I can provide whatever tech
information you might need to help me.
XP?
Traffic lite is 'lit' on the card by the RJ45 cable?
Try repairing the connection (contl panel-network connections-right
click your active connection{is it enabled?} -properties-repair)
Use the home network setup or run connections setup with in IE tools

That's the wired thing Both Network Connections and Zone Alarm
report the DSL as "Connected". The green and yellow lights are lit.
The Ethernet is a VIA PCI 10/100 mb Fast Ethernet that's on board.
All of the lights on the new modem are lit. The Ethernet and DSL
lights blink and Zone Alarm blocks the stuff it's supposed to block.
The Zone Alarm Traffic Icon and DSL modems lights blink even though
I am accessing the net via dial-up. I did have connectivity for a brief period when the Earthlink Tech
had me switch the connections around on the dsl cable. But after a
Windows Update and reboot connectivity was lost even though it was
reported as connected.
Kill all your firewalls and protection for a fw minutes and see if
that opens the web. It sounds like the days of ole and Norton
firewall blocking everything...maybe ZA has adopted those
characteristics

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I agree with disabling Zone Alarm for as a test. I seem to remember way back when I was using it that with a router change resulting in a different subnet. Zone Alarm would not pass the traffic as it "thought" it was a new subnet illegally trying to access the PC. I had to delete the entry that was my local network in ZA and have it re-learn the local network. I could have just changed the entry but was too new with the software at the time.

Another thought would be to try one of the Linux Live CD's as they usually have compatible Ethernet drivers and such. If it can access the network using Firefox or what ever built in browser came with the Live Linux CD then you would at least know that the problem is software related and not the gateway/router or cables.

Puppy Linux can be found at http://www.puppylinux.com/info.htm and is easy to use.
Others can be found at the http://www.livecdlist.com/ site. If you download one of these make sure you choose a Desktop or "Live" version and not an OS Installation version.


I did disable ZA and no joy. At Earthlink I've been given 4 different sets of DNS IP addresses. None of them worked Using Ping, I can ping my own IP address and get a reply, duh. I can ping any website and get a response. But when I ping the default gateway, all I get is "timed out".

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