Two LAN's using Windows 98

My office has a "hard-wired" LAN involving two PC's which
have Windows 98 OS. I want one of the PC's to access a
separate wireless LAN for internet access via a wireless
network adapter.

I can't get the browser (IE) to recognise the wireless
network - and having set the options to "access internet
via LAN" IE is looking for access via the hard-wired network!

Is there any way that Windows 98 can facilitate what I'm
trying to achieve or am I going to have to upgrade OS to
2000 or XP?


Pol

In article <104b701c43f4c$8c373830$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Pol"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>My office has a "hard-wired" LAN involving two PC's which
>have Windows 98 OS. I want one of the PC's to access a
>separate wireless LAN for internet access via a wireless
>network adapter.
>
>I can't get the browser (IE) to recognise the wireless
>network - and having set the options to "access internet
>via LAN" IE is looking for access via the hard-wired network!
>
>Is there any way that Windows 98 can facilitate what I'm
>trying to achieve or am I going to have to upgrade OS to
>2000 or XP?

An upgrade isn't needed.

Does the hard-wired LAN have an Internet connection? If not, the
solution is to remove the default gateway specification from that LAN.

If the hard-wired LAN does have an Internet connection, the solution
is to specify a lower metric for the wireless LAN than for the
hard-wired LAN.

A look at the route table will show what default gateways exist. Open
a command prompt window and type:

route print

Lines starting with "0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0" show default gateways.

If you'd like, post a reply to this message with a copy of the route
table. You can write the route table to a file with the command:

route print >route.txt

and then copy/paste the contents of the route.txt file into a message.
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Carey

"Pol" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:104b701c43f4c$8c373830$(E-Mail Removed)...
> My office has a "hard-wired" LAN involving two PC's which
> have Windows 98 OS. I want one of the PC's to access a
> separate wireless LAN for internet access via a wireless
> network adapter.
>
> I can't get the browser (IE) to recognise the wireless
> network - and having set the options to "access internet
> via LAN" IE is looking for access via the hard-wired network!
>
> Is there any way that Windows 98 can facilitate what I'm
> trying to achieve or am I going to have to upgrade OS to
> 2000 or XP?