Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
Where did you get that broadcast address? It's wrong, makes no sense based on the IP and net mask. Try 192.168.1.255 . However, that may well not be your only problem. You seem to have a local private network (based on the IP). Why do you have to do a netcardconfig at all and not just configure by DHCP?
Sorry for printing mistake!
I tried to write 192.168.1.253.
However, I tried the different Broadcast addresses:
192.168.1.255
192.168.1.253
192.168.1.254
255.255.255.255

None worked!