Network Protocol and Service Not Showing Up...

Hello all and thank you in advance for any assistance that
can be rendered.

Figure I should post the upfront info right away about the
PC and laptop as it will come in handy here in a second
for anyone willing to help.

The PC:
Gateway Select - 1.0 GHz Athlon Processor, 383 MB RAM, and
has Windows 98SE installed on it.

The Laptop:
Dell Inspiron - 2.4 GHz Mobile Intel Pentium, 1 GB RAM and
has Windows XP Professional SP1 installed.

For those that don't wish to read it all, quick synopsis:
Protocol for Ethernet Adapter not showing up, File and
printer sharing service not showing up and File and Print
Sharing setting not staying check. Now off to the long
post.

I purchased a Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter for
the PC, installed it and it shows up fine in as an adaptor
in the Networking screen.

However, after three days, countless How-To and Tutorials,
and many a forum read, I believe I have found the root of
my problem and hoping someone knows the answer.

One: The protocols for the Ethernet Adapter are not
showing up under the TCP/IP.

All I have right now in the network components installed
are:
Client for Microsoft Networks
Dial-Up Adapter
Linksys LNE100TX(v5) Fast Ethernet Adapter
TCP/IP -> Dial-Up Adapter

After reading all of the forums and troubleshooting it
says that I should have a service of "File and printer
sharing on Network," or something that is similar that I
appear to be lacking. When I click on Add, pretty
straightforward to do it (you would think), and it doesn't
allow me to add anything for Client, Protocol or Service.
I click the icon and then Add and nothing happens.
However, then I click on Adapter it brings up the Linksys
LAN card on there, even though it is already in the
installed components. If anyone has a lead on that, would
be great to hear.

Two: When click on File and Printer Sharing..., it has the
two options to chose of giving others access and allowing
printer access. Now I am done this about 5 times now and
when I click on the two of them to allow it and click OK,
it goes back to Network and I restart. However, it fails
to save the setting of the two checked boxes. I have been
unable to find a solution for that problem as well.

Thank you once again for reading this long post and for
any help anyone can offer.

Cheers,
Matt


Matt Zinkil