I've been told over and over and over again that, when you think the
hardware is failing think again. Hardware hardly ever fails, the real
problem is software. Generally very true. But hardware does fail once
in a while and can do so intermittently. That was the key. Software
problems are generally not intermittent.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/1/2011 10:19 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
> Glad to hear it's fixed, Chuck. That was a tough one.
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 18:53, Chuck Norcutt
> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I just finished installing a new NetGear wireless router in place of the
>> aging Motorola that was causing me (and very many of you helpful souls)
>> incredible grief. After all that... $39 fixed the problem.
>>
>> That it was successful was known pretty much immediately. Pings by name
>> to both computers worked as expected. Both can see the computers in the
>> workgroup. And I was just viewing photos my wife took in London and
>> stored on the laptop... from my desktop machine across the hall.
>>
>> Most amazing of all, I had previously removed the driver for the new
>> laser printer from the laptop figuring I'd have to reinstall it. Nope.
>> The laptop saw the new printer on the net and printed a double sided
>> document for me straight away with no driver installation. I've always
>> done it but perhaps I've never really needed to install printer drivers
>> on the computers other than where the printer is installed.
>>
>> Special thanks to all of you who thought long and hard about this and
>> kept feeding me with thoughts and things to try. This list is just
>> something else. And my apologies to all you other suffering souls from
>> all the heavy OT traffic here.
>>
>> Finally, I must say a thankyou to Jim who pestered me off-list both last
>> night and this morning about trying a shorter cable on the laptop. That
>> wasn't the solution to the problem but it was while trying the short,
>> long and then short again cables that I noticed that the short cable was
>> successful on the first go. But then I tried it again later and it
>> failed. That's what convinced me that it was worth it to go buy a new
>> router even if it proved not to be the real problem.
>>
>> I'm happy, happy, happy. It's been a long 3 days of frustration. Many
>> thanks again to all.
>>
>> Back to camera gear. :-)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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