networking delimina?

[Stormymystic]

my husband bought 2 ethernet cards, a 5 port hub ethernet adapter, and cables, I got my computer back online through this, the problem is, his laptop, although finds the card, does not find the network, any ideas on how to get it to work? we have already tried to go through the control center/networking but was unable to figure anything out, right now, he has his laptop, but any ideas will be welcome

[andrewas]

Sounds like the laptop isnt setup for the right IP address, subnet mask and gateway. How you fix this depends on the network.

If you have a router, then turn everything onto DHCP resolution. For XP, go into network connections, bring up the properties for the Ethernet adapter, bring up the properties for the TCP/IP protocol, make sure the 'obtain IP address automaticly' box is checked. For win98, bring up the properties for network neighborhood, bring up the properties of the TCP/IP protocol bount to the ethernet card, and make sure the same box is checked.

If you dont have a router, its a little more complicated but still doable. With no router there is no reliable way for autoconfiguration to set up a network. (I know, I know, but the day I trust a microsoft algorithm to set up a peer to peer network and get it right will never come). Same screen as before, but now we have to give it the numbers by hand. Gateway in the following refers to the computer that is sharing the internet connection, if you arent using internet connection sharing you can ignore those sections.

Ip address - 192.168.0.1, the second machine gets 192.168.0.2 and so on

Subnet mask - 255.255.255.0 for all machines

Default gateway - this depends on how you set up the network. If the internet is visible only on one machine, leave this blank. If one machine is using internet connection sharing, put the IP address of that machine in here.

DNS - Again, this one is only for the internet. The gateway will fetch it from the ISP when it connects. The other computers will need to be given it by hand. The programs ipconfig and winipcfg (run them from a DOS prompt) will give the address if you run them while the gateway is connected.

[Stormymystic]

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I will wait till he gets home, and let him
figure out what you just said

[ 09-27-2003, 08:19 PM: Message edited by: Stormymystic ]

[Stormymystic]

I give up, tried everything, it wil find the hardware, but when it trys to instal all the software, it ask me to insert the windows 98 se2 disk, which we do not have It tells me there are like 5 or 6 system files missing, who ever owned this did a bang up job of distroying it, but they forgot to take out their picuters and addy, lol, good think I am not a stalker, andyway, if someone has any ideas on how to get the missing files, let me know, I will try and get the name of the files later today

[cujo]

Hi Stormymystic,

Just a thought, but sometimes the .cab files are copied on the HD. So see if you can find a directory full of *.cab files (usually called i386). If that is the case, you won't need the Win98 SE cd at all.

[Granamere]

I am not going to ask about why you do not have the 98 disk but you should get a copy if you are running it. If you have the 98 cd key you should be able to get the media from either the company who made the PC or from Microsoft.

Fixing the issuse at hand. If you can deal with the popups try this site http://dll.yaroslavl.ru as it ask for a file download it on a working pc then copy it to floppy and you can guess from there.
I can not find the site I normally download files from but then again it has been awhile since I have need to so it might be gone.

Granamere

[Stormymystic]

Originally posted by Granamere: I am not going to ask about why you do not have the 98 disk but you should get a copy if you are running it. If you have the 98 cd key you should be able to get the media from either the company who made the PC or from Microsoft. Fixing the issuse at hand. If you can deal with the popups try this site http://dll.yaroslavl.ru as it ask for a file download it on a working pc then copy it to floppy and you can guess from there. I can not find the site I normally download files from but then again it has been awhile since I have need to so it might be gone. Granamere

Granamere, I do not have the cd for a ligit reason, we bought the laptop second hand, and a pawn shop, so there was no cd with it, I will probably have to buy a whole new 98 cd, he does not want anything else, but I want to try and recover the files first, thanks guys for everything, I will look and see if I can find that file right now, and will also try the link, if all else fails, someone said tey will send me the files I am missing, maybe fix it that way

[Stormymystic]

Originally posted by cujo: Hi Stormymystic, Just a thought, but sometimes the .cab files are copied on the HD. So see if you can find a directory full of *.cab files (usually called i386). If that is the case, you won't need the Win98 SE cd at all.

no cab files are showing up at all
there is a total of 6 files missing, 2 dll's, 3 vxd's, and 1 sys

[ 09-30-2003, 12:25 PM: Message edited by: Stormymystic ]

[Granamere]

Normally if the cab files are there when you make a change it will remember when the last place it got files from and just get them but that was a very good idea! It never hurts to check. Also if it had the files on it before you can do a search for the files on the hard drive and point it to them altough they are where they need to be. So if it ask for tcpmon.dll then you do a search on your hard drive and point it to the file. Just a thought. [img]smile.gif[/img] If you do not have them then you will need to download them or something to get them. Yes it is a pain that if the files are there that it still ask for them. MS is getting better with this each OS they release.

Granamere

[Stormymystic]

Originally posted by Granamere: Normally if the cab files are there when you make a change it will remember when the last place it got files from and just get them but that was a very good idea! It never hurts to check. Also if it had the files on it before you can do a search for the files on the hard drive and point it to them altough they are where they need to be. So if it ask for tcpmon.dll then you do a search on your hard drive and point it to the file. Just a thought. [img]smile.gif[/img] If you do not have them then you will need to download them or something to get them. Yes it is a pain that if the files are there that it still ask for them. MS is getting better with this each OS they release. Granamere

hmm,they are showing up in the system files, now to just get the network wizzard to find them