I have installed Windows 7 on blank harddrive on a desktop. No problems incountered during installation. However, when I tried to access the internet the network adapter (Intel(R) PRO/100 VE) showed initially: LAN not connected. LAN was connected but the adapter installed is a Netgear FA311. After searching through this Forum I found that I need to install a new driver. After that I had 2 adapters but the FA311 is now connected. If I delete the Intel it is installed again after each new boot. With the FA311 I still cannot access the internet. It shows "unidentified network" and "limited connectivity". After hours of trying different settings and scanning through this forum I founf another hint: Set "Network Media" in the adapter properties to the actual value, in my case 100Base Tx Full Duplex. For a while the limited connectivity was gone but I still could not access the internet. In the meantime i have again limited connectivity although Netwrok Media isset correctly. The computer is connected via a Netgear switch to a DSL router.

HiIs your NIC displayed as functional in device manager?Open network adapter status dialog and check whether IPv4 IP, mask and gateway are auto configured correctlyYou may try to restart dsl modem and ro disable enable NICRun network diagnostic on network adapter from network and sharing center, and check report when diagnostic finish

NIC is functional, I have tried the IPv4 configuration with autoconfiguaration and with defining IP, Gateway etc. manually - no difference. I also restarted the dsl modem and the NIC. Running the diagnostic results in "Could not identify the problem".The computer is connected to a local network with additional XP and Vista computers. The XP computer are sharing devices in a home-network and all computers have access to the internet via the same router.

can you see shared folders of other computer in LAN?

No. As I now have again limited connectivity I cannot get any access. For the short timeframe when I had connectivity the Vista PC was shown on the map but I could not get access.

enter IPv4 settings manually - ip, mask, gateway, dns servers

I tried this, no success. I can't even get the connectivity back that I had after setting the Network Media properties.

Ok set madia to 10Mb halh duplex to see what happenCan you give me a screen shot of network adaptor status details window?