Hello Guys,
I have two computers networked and installed Copperlan on both. One Copperlan installation finds the ethernet port to use, but my other installation cannot seem to find a similar connection. I am, and have been for a long time, successfully networked and everything else works just fine.
I also went into my Windows firewall settings and created an exception for Copperlan just in case my firewall was disabling it, and turned off all other antivirus/malware type blockage, cleaned my registry, rebooted and reinstalled Copperlan, but on my second computer the ethernet interface setting still can't find an ethernet connection even though I'm currently sharing files and able to connect to my first computer as always; the network connection is otherwise fine.
My Specs:
I installed the application as an administrator on both. My computers are identical except one chipset by ASUS (working) and the second by Nvidia (no ethernet connection). For the (bad) Nvidia computer:
M4N 78Pro (NVIDIA nForce ethernet) http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4N78_PRO/
AMD Phenom II X4 955
WinXP SP3
3GB RAM
Copperlan 1.1 [3] - downloaded today
This 2nd computer is also connected to the internet by a wireless connection in use. I noticed on my Copperlan interface, the connection description at the bottom reads "Ethernet" on the working installation, but reads "Local" on the poor installation.
The network uses standard CAT5 ethernet crosstalk cable (homemade), so no hub/router difficulties to be had. I don't have any software other than Windows Firewall that would block network traffic. I don't run traditional antivirus, but I do have Spybot and MalwareMalbytes in my systray as well. I tried it without those two applications running and the problem persists.
Thanks!