Help! ICS nuked the "I" part of the acronym!

[d3mlg0d]

I'm trying to set my old Cyrix rig up as a network server, so as to free up a PCI slot in my newer machine currently used by a NIC.

anyways, the Cyrix is running Win98SE off a 364MB hard drive (honestly, what else would fit on it?)
anyways, Win98 is set up fine. after much to-do I finally got two network cards set up in the machine simultaneously.
they are a generic CNet Pro200 PCI (b'lieve it's rated for 100mbit) NIC, and a Diamond Multimedia HomeFree PNA/Ethernet NIC (the kind that works thru phone line as well as with cat5's)

I got a 'net connection working on the CNet card just fine. Websites and all. And the Diamond card read an IP address too (but a local address of course). Then I installed ICS, trying to use the CNet card as the 'net connection, and the Diamond card for LAN. Reboot.

No internet connection.
Winipcfg lists only the Diamond card now.
Network properties shows the Diamond, the CNet, and Internet Connection Sharing adapter, as well as all the protocols you'd expect. I ran through the properties for each one and they lok fine.
Fearing a fluke, I uninstalled ICS and repeated, only to find the same results.

Now, the Diamond card is doing what it's supposed to, using address 192.168.0.1 and being ready to route the cable connection.

Why on earth is the other card no longer showing up?
And how might I fix it?

TIA!

 

[CYLINDERMAN]

Just a thought,

in internet options I believe there is a section to chose which adapter to use for internet and which to use for LAN, this might have been set both to the same adapter.

 

[d3mlg0d]

ok, i doubt that's the case but i'll check into it in the morning when i reboot that machine (it's too late now! 5am! wow i need sleep)
thanks

 

[d3mlg0d]

nope no luck so far =(

i've reinstalled about everything that i can think of to reinstall. i'm reinstalling win98se right now.

is there any way to just manually configure w98 to do ICS, or will it not perform NAT?

 

[CYLINDERMAN]

I'm not sure about manually installing because I have alwayse used the wizzard. But something to be careful of is after you have your internet connection working and getting ready to install ICS sometimes the internet connection wizzard pops up instead of the internet connection sharing wizzard. If this happens just cancel th internet connection wizzard and the other will pop up.

hope this might help