Unidentified network

Alfarjamie · 1 Mar 2013 at 13:19

Okay so first of all on my old mobo, i would connect and be able to share my internet connection over ethernet to any connected device (xbox etc) just fine.. When i installed my new motherboard (P8H61-MX USB3 ASUS) i would be faced with "identifying..." then "unidentified network" status on my onboard ethernet, trying every fix i could find, manual configuration, different cables, different drivers and different devices to connect to i would still get the same error, it would not maintain any kind of IPV4 ethernet connection just "no network access", so i tried linux, same issue, i tried a fresh install of W7... Same problem..

So now i bought a PCI-E X1 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet NIC, and i am faced with the same issue on all OS and fresh install..

I tried the connection with a laptop using the same patch cables and devices to connect to, i can get the network working just fine but Internet connection sharing is not working for some reason, not that it matters because i don't plan on using the laptop.

My assumption would be that some kind of network interfacing chip on the motherboard is defective and prevents even PCI-E NIC's from creating a connection. Unless for some crazy reason only a crossover cable will work with both my onboard ethernet and PCI-E NIC, don't really understand what the difference would be but i would have to say the motherboard has defective network components.. Any help is appreciated, cheers.

bledd · 1 Mar 2013 at 14:13

Buy a router, you'll never look back. Who is your ISP and what sort of internet is it? Cable / ADSL ?

Alfarjamie · 1 Mar 2013 at 14:38

ISP and router is irrelevant but my ISP is Sky.. The router is in another room beyond ethernet cable distance and practicality, the aim was to connect devices that are ethernet only to my WIFI through my PC ethernet and using internet connection sharing. I have emailed ASUS about this and hopefully i will get a response and a replacement motherboard for a clearly defective network module, although shipping the motherboard to them and leaving me without a PC for perhaps a week or two isn't really an option.

bledd · 1 Mar 2013 at 15:56

It's not irrelevant, you didn't even say if you had a router in the first post.

Another option is 2x powerline adaptors + a switch.

It will be a heck of a lot cleaner than ICS

Alfarjamie · 1 Mar 2013 at 20:10

No idea what those are but enlighten me... I have just been dealing with a Finlux 47" HDTV i got today and all i can say about that is... absolutely ****ing terrible. Literally with tests... 100MS response time on display, you can feel the latency in keystrokes and mouse movement, 100MS on display ive never even heard of and it was advertised as "6ms", incredible ghosting and a dead pixel after 20 minutes of use... seems like everything electrical is giving me the middle finger lately.

PistolPete · 2 Mar 2013 at 09:44

If you have a router, why are you even bothering with ICS.
NAT is bad enough, but you are introducing double NAT which is never a good thing.

Alfarjamie · 2 Mar 2013 at 17:34

it works fine, well it used to on my old motherboard, but as i said router is in another room so that isnt possible.

Just need to know why my NIC and onboard ethernet is not establishing a connection to anything.