Can't Ping

Clum

Trying to add a PC to my home network but having difficulties.

Tried pinging the gateway and other computers on the network but the ping command just hangs, with no response coming back. Same thing happens when I run ipconfig.

Tried using the windows Network Setup Wizard but that just hung aswell.

The PC is connected to a Linksys Wireless router/switch via network cable, is assigned to the same Workgroup as the other computers and can be seen on My network places, although not accessed nor pinged, from the other machines.

The computer uses Windows XP Home edition. Any ideas why Ping and Ipconfig don't work?

cregser

Somethings' wrong with the network card I think.

Look at Control Panel>System>Hardware Tab>Device Manager>Network Adapters

Check if you actually have a network card (I know you plugged your cable into a network card). It might be disabled in the BIOS or you may want to get the latest drivers for it and uninstall/reinstall.


EDIT: By the way, googling for windows related network problems usually give a good few results.

8T8

If you are using the Windows firewall you must enable "allow incoming echo request" under the ICMP settings.

You can find it under the ICMP tab in the firewall advanced settings section.

Check out this guide if you are not sure where to go it points out all the settings do a search for ping in the page and it will bring you to the right section. Or read this if you want to get straight to the ICMP section.

Capt'n Midnight

search for firewall - do not turn off if connected to the internet

try
ping 127.0.0.1
ping localhost

Clum

Thanks for your help folks, I've made some progress.

Changed a setting on the network card (in Control Panel/Device Manager/Network Adapters/...properties) a Network Address property was set to Not Present. The other option for this was to choose a value. I selected Value but let if at all 0s.

I can now ping the router and the other two computers on the home network but only by using the actual IP address. Ping computer names (or even localhost instead of 127.0.0.1) results in the command hanging again.

Still can't run ipconfig though.

Allow Incoming Echo Request was already enabled.

ntlbell

Clum wrote:

Thanks for your help folks, I've made some progress.

Changed a setting on the network card (in Control Panel/Device Manager/Network Adapters/...properties) a Network Address property was set to Not Present. The other option for this was to choose a value. I selected Value but let if at all 0s.

I can now ping the router and the other two computers on the home network but only by using the actual IP address. Ping computer names (or even localhost instead of 127.0.0.1) results in the command hanging again.

Still can't run ipconfig though.

Allow Incoming Echo Request was already enabled.

try uninstall/re-installing the card

or resetting tcp you could also try clearing the netbios cache

nbtstat -R

netsh int ip reset

Capt'n Midnight

If you can ping IP addresses then name resolution problem

you may be able to connect to computers by \\192.168.x.y

look at %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and lmhosts files in case they are full of junk