OK,
Now on location and here for a couple of days. Tried most of the above,
IPv4 address now shows 169.254.221.203 but NOTHING showing on Default gateway, tried to set this manually to the same as another computer on the wireless network but it did not seem to like it. It is a home network.
Ping was OK on the IP address, but failed on 4.2.2.1, returning a 1231 error code.
Worked OK direct wired.
Be good if I can sort this whilst here.