Fixed the problem by doing a system restore and performing a DNS flush. I'm not sure what caused the problem or what really fixed it.
Normal is just a setting on a washing machine.
RESOLVED: Ping: transmit failed. General failure
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I am having some problems with connecting and pinging. Right now, I am not getting any ip addresses on any adapters, not even a 169.x.x.x address. When I try to ping anything, including 172.0.0.1 I get the error "Ping: transmit failed. General failure". I have tried a system restore with no luck. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing my wireless network card driver, and restarting my computer. I have never seen this problem before, and am out of troubleshooting options. Any advice? Thank you.
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Anonymous
2010-06-22T07:58:14+00:00
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2012-09-08T02:52:13+00:00 If you're using the Intel PROset WiFi manager then you need to open the Intel PROset/wireless WiFi Connection Utility: Start -> All Programs -> Intel PROset Wireless -> WiFi Connection Utility. When the utility is open, select the Profiles button (bottom right), select the Profile name you want to update from the list, select the Properties button. Update the WiFi password using the Security Settings option.
If you are using Windows to manage the WiFi settings then you will need to go to 'Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections', double-click the Wireless Network Connection, select the Wireless Properties button. Update the WiFi password using the Security tab.
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Anonymous
2014-02-01T16:21:01+00:00 THE SOLUTION I FOUND IN MY CASE:
-When I tried "ping ip-address",
it said "Ping: transmit failed. General failure"
It seemed to be an energy problem, so I disabled the device and re-enabled it in devmgtm.msc, and restarting the computer also wouldn't work.
TO MY SURPRISE, pianoman201 in this forum said that doing an ipconfig /flushdns. I thought: "if it is a power problem, how could that help?". The DNS flushing didn't work out for me, but pianoman201's said it had worked for him, so I tried what follows, and IT WORKED.
What I did:
-ipconfig /release
-ipconfig /renew
IF you obtain a "rpc server is unavailable", perhaps its due to the fact that some of us disable the DHCP client in the services.msc. So go there, and initiate it, just for the sake of these two commands above. And the problem got solved. Now, WHAT CAUSED IT? Although I haven't enough info for final details, I trend to think an energy cut (because the laptop battery is failing, and also the connector, something very common in laptops, due to programmed obsolescence) disconfigures somethIng in the IP assignation of the computer, when energy is suddenly lost. But it has been solved twice by the same method (which is a software reset).
Regards, from Bogotá, Colombia, South America
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Anonymous
2011-05-12T02:11:56+00:00 C'mon this is not a real answer you've made waste my time by reading this.
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Anonymous
2013-06-23T09:38:54+00:00 thanks, my problem is solved, it is helpfull