Re: How to install DSL, how to install ethernet card?
Some background on what you had observed. First, DSL light on modem
blinks when a DSL signal is observed but modem cannot synchronize. A
weak signal is one reason. A problem sometimes created by a plug-in
protector; it eats the DSL signal. Even telco 'installed for free'
protectors from 30 years ago would not do that destructive eating. To
operate properly, DSL signal light must be on constant.
Your post is unclear. DSL modem must connect directly to telco -
through no filter. Every device in the building including answering
machine, all phones, fax, alarm system, surge protector, and even
modem in same computer must connect to telco via a filter. No
exceptions.
Filters I have seen are bidirectional. However best is to have jack
connected to telco; socket connected to POTS device. A second filter
should do nothing useful. If any wire goes to places unknown, then
that wire should be disconnected or connected through a filter - again
so that more DSL signal is not eaten.
Depending on configuration, the DSL modem should have a page that
reports an important number labeled "signal strength", "decibel",
"dB", or "signal/noise ratio". Reporting that number here would
result in useful replies. Also that number is how to test DSL filters
for bidirectional, operation, and maybe missing (needed) filters
somewhere in the building. Number would also define how badly a surge
protector was eating DSL signals.
Windows Device Manager only sees NIC hardware and device driver.
Both were OK according to Device Manager. Verizon software also
needed something additional to see the NIC; unique configuration
data. IOW NIC hardware and driver were working OK. But configuration
data was in error. Newer downloaded software probably only changed
configuration setup - maybe changed a default setting - probably
loaded same drivers.
If reinstalling hardware, first manually remove all older entries in
Device Manager, then reboot, before reinstalling the NIC. To confirm
hardware is OK, better manufacturers provide comprehensive hardware
diagnostics that either tell you important facts or make requests for
help useful. What are those numbers?
Verizon software does nothing to the NIC. However the last NIC
configuration data, in some cases, may need to access Verizon router
to finish its setup. Otherwise IPCONFIG would report all zeros.
Internet Options/Connections/LAN connections did nothing to or for
NIC. That was completely about setting parameters for the DSL modem's
ethernet port.
On Sep 16, 7:49 pm, mm <NOPSAMmm2...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Most of what follows is just narrative. follow-up, but at ##### are a
> couple new questions.
> ...
>
>>use the USB port, that I have to have an ethernet card.
>
> I still haven't found my NIC, and I didn't want to go to the store, so
> I bought one on ebay, a Belkin card, 3 dollars for the card and 4.85
> for shipping!
>
> It came this past thursday, in the original heat shrunk cellophane,
> but it mentions XP in the instructions so it couldn't be that old.
>
> Problem installing:
>
> The DSL light was flashing on the DSL modem, and eventually I learned
> that is not as good as steady, and it went steady after BYPASSING THE
> Surge protector.
>
> I put in a DSL filter on the phone line, and it there was a lot of
> whooshing, so I added a second one in series and it's fine now.
> Probably the first one was no good at all, but I haven't tested the
> second alone yet.
>
> I had put in the first one backwards (by using the Y connector) and I
> thought it didn't work because it was backwards. So I still have to
> try the good one backwards and see if that works.
>
> STill iddn't work. Verizon software said I had no ethernet card, even
> though Device manager said I had one.
>
> But when I clicked on Disply Driver Details, in the second tab, the
> white box was empty. No details.
>
> DOS box IPCONFIG gave all zeroes.
>
> Network Box (Control Panel) had no new entries for TCP/IP.
>
> Verizon tried to help, but eventually I called Belkin. The first
> person spoke good English, but her accent was so strong some of the
> time, I still couldn't really understand everything, but she said to
> reinstall the card. I asked the card into the motherboard or the
> software for the card. (I had already installed the software 2 or 3
> times, but hadn't removed it in between. I tried the card in another
> slot, then back to the first.
>
> CAlled again. The second guy said download new drivers. Reconnected
> to dial-up and did that. NO file on the download is more than 5 hours
> newer than the files on the CD that came with the card. April 25,
> 2001.
>
> Nonetheless, the new files work well. NIC is fixed. If they just
> wrote the CD, how did they have time to stuff the CD's in the boxes
> and ship them if they had changed some of the files 5 hours later.
> Weren't the boxes still in the building?
>
> When did XP come out? If later than April 25, 2001, how come they
> didn't include the newer, downloadable drivers on the CD they shpped,
> which included software for XP.
>
> Still couldn't connect.
>
> Verizon had me do lots of things, but I think it was at Internet
> Options/Connections/LAN connections. Yesterday, nothing was checked.
> The first guy had me check the top option, Automatically Detect
> Settings. Today when we looked, that was no longer checked. Use Proxy
> was checked, even though no proxy address was filled in. Not
> surprised that wouldn't work, but I didn't change it. Maybe installing
> the NIC software did, but that seems strange.
>
> Now I can connect and dowload a file real fast, and IE6 works, but
>
> ########
> Firefox doesn't work. Can't imagine why not, since IE does.
>
> And I have to make changes in the settings for Agent. (I've posted
> to the AGent ng.)
>
> Plus I forgot that Verizon probably doesn't have ngs, or at least not
> most of the ones I have been reading, and if I want to cancel Erols, I
> have to find another way to get them. I don't think the article
> numbers will match up and I'm afraid it will want to delete what I
> have retrieved already, or it will get all mixed up. Any Agent
> specialists out there?
>
> And I have to make changes to get Eudora to work. (I've posted to the
> Eudora ng.