In article <7e8701c3e861$c3adb9c0$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Bob"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Hi there,
>Back in July of 2003, I started off with connecting to
>the internet with Comcast Broadband Cable, on a Windows
>XP home edition. I had this set up by connecting the
>cable modem to a linksys router, and then the router to
>my XP computer. I did it this way because I wanted to use
>a hardware firewall as apposed to a firewall software and
>eventually conntect 2 more computers through a network.
>
>Finally yesturday I was able to get my dusty old Windows
>98 Emachine up and running again, and installed a Linksys
>Eithernet Fast 10/100 network adapter on to it. I had
>followed the instructions for
>
>Recently I have been tring to get my dusty old Emachine
>computer that is running Windows 98 to network with my
>Windows XP computer. I first had to install a network
>adapter to my Windows 98 computer before I could do my
>wiring. Then, I have set up my wiring to go from my
>Linksys cable modem to my Linksys router and then the
>wires from the router to both of my computers. I then
>installed the software that came with the adapter on to
>the Windows 98 computer that I recently installed the
>adapter to and then restarted that computer. Then I went
>back to my Windows XP computer and ran the network wizard
>and made sure that I saved the wizard to a disk and then
>popped in that disk to the Windows 98 computer to finish
>off the network wizard.
>
>After doing all this I tested to see if I could connect
>to the internet on both computers which the results where
>that I could connect to the internet with Windows XP, BUT
>NOT Windows 98. The first thing I did was I called
>Linksys stating that I was unable to connect to the
>internet with Windows 98. They asked me to run
>winipconfig and asked me what was my ip address set to
>which started off with 169. They told me that Windows 98
>was not detecting my router because it should start off
>with a 192. The first solution was that they said since
>we know that Windows XP is working, first try shutting
>down both computers, unplug the router then the modem.
>Then take the wire end that is connected to the Windows
>XP Computer and connect that wire to the Windows 98
>computer, and connect the wire end from the Windows 98
>computer and connect that to the Windows XP computer.
>Then turn on the computers, and then in Windows 98 run
>winipconfig again and see if switching the wires fixed
>the problem. Which of course that didn't work. The second
>solution was to see if the router is blocking Windows 98,
>by connecting the Windows 98 computer directly to the
>modem instead of the router. Which of course that didn't
>work. I then called my ISP and asked them to check my
>connection without the router to see what was wrong and
>the they told me that I was lossing packets. So the whole
>bottom line is that so far I know that what is going on
>with Windows 98 is that I am lossing packets, but what I
>want to ask you guys is do you know what could be causing
>this, and can I fix this?
>
>Bob
Linksys gave you some good troubleshooting advice. The Linksys
network card on Windows 98 can't connect successfully to either the
router or the cable modem, so I suspect that one or more of these is
the problem:
1. The network card is defective
2. Its driver program isn't properly installed.
3. A firewall program on Windows 98 is interfering.
Un-install all firewall programs and try connecting through the router
(which has a built-in firewall) again. Don't try connecting directly
to the cable modem without a firewall.
If that doesn't work, un-install and re-install the network card.
If that doesn't fix it, I'd replace the network card.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
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