Red cross over Network icon in Windows 7: unable to connect to internet

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My cousin's laptop is displaying a red cross over his network icon. I thought it may a Ethernet port issue and searched the net. Found that the issue may be due to drivers etc... But the laptop was working fine till about 4 days ago and suddenly the issue cropped up.
I connected my EVDO to his laptop and the range was wildly fluctuating and it didnt connect at all.(Last time it was very steady and I got speeds upto 250KBps in his house) Didnt try using EDGE as his laptop didnt have a BT and i didnt have a data cable.
So what could be faulty? Anyone had the issue before? Re-installing OS a solution?
 
Did you try the ethernet driver re-install. That usually solves it. Some DLL/file can go corrupt at times. Has happened to me once.
 
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Naa..no need for that pain. Remove all the network connections bound to the OS. Then remove all drivers for the USB EVDO and ethernet. Re-do them. It should work.
 
Put in the dvd and upgrade windows 7 that way you won't have to loose the program installed and user data... Just try it before a complete clean setup

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Thanks asingh. Will try the driver re-install part and then report back here.

@deathgoddg - But wouldn't the laptop OS be more up-to-date due to frequent important updates installed than a old DVD? Then how will that be an upgrade :S
 
Had a similar problem, restart did the trick for me.

he is mentioning upgrade as in it will not remove any of the installed apps/settings/etc. Think of it as a format, without losing the data.
 
^ Got it now :) Will try driver re-install first and if it doesn't work then will try Win 7 upgrade next. (The system is a Dell inspiron and I have a OEM Dell Windows 7 disc)
 
As long as you have the original key or ahem ahem... It shouldn't be a problem.. Typing too much on mobile is irritating hence sorry for not explaining my step clearly... I don't think it's a hardware issue but still as you are a linux guy try a live usb and check for hardware once too if you want it.

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driver re-install did the trick:)
Now in my laptop the com ports of my evdo is not working after installing drivers that came with the huawei e173. :facepalm: unable to connect to evdo even after reinstalling driver. Get error 52.
 
I had the exact same problem...there was a red cross, and it wasnt detecting wifi and the ethernet wasnt working either.

I re-installed the drivers, did a system restore, did everything mentioned on google..but nothing worked.

I took the laptop to a near by shop, on inspection..the engineer said that the internal wifi card has gone kaput.

My options were to get a new internal wifi card for Rs.2250 or get a USB adapter for wifi, got the latter for Rs.900.

Working perfectly now.
 
asingh said:
You pulling the EVDO drive from the embedded firmware or from an external site..?
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BSNL guy had given me a UI s/w and it asks me to plug in the modem to complete installation. So I guess driver is from EVDO device only.

Once the EVDO didnt connect I uninstalled the UI and then deleted the connection from the n/w and sharing center. But then on re-installation that connection is not re-appearing :ashamed:
 
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