Internet connection sharing woes

[snow patrol]

Here's the crack:

I have my dsl modem connected to an ethernet port on my dfi motherboard, the motherboard has 2 ethernet ports, and yet only one is showing up in network connections.

My other pc has a asus p4e800 mobo, which has one ethernet port. Firstly, which driver should i install to get the asus port to work? The intel gigalan?

WHAT I basically want to do is to run some network cable (already have) from the 2nd dfi port, to the asus port and then share my internet connection.

I've tried running network setup wizard from within windows but when i run it on the dfi board it comes up with an error (basically because there's only one network adaptor being shown, which i'm selecting as my internet connection leaving nothing to be selected as my network connection...apart from firewire that is).

I need some help here, as my cousin and i are planning a mini 'lan-party' but have fallen at the first hurdle! How can i get things up and running? please?

🙂

 

[Fardringle]

If only one of the onboard Ethernet adapters is showing up in Windows, you might have the other one disabled in the BIOS. Enable it in the BIOS then let Windows detect and install it and you should be able to set up ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) normally after that.


edit: fixed a silly typo. 😛

 

[snow patrol]

thanks, i had a look in my bios, but there doesn't seem to be anything specific about enabling the second LAN 🙁

 

[Devistater]

Which DFI mobo?
Many mobos with dual ethernet have one built into mobo chipset (like nforce mobos you install nforce drivers to enable that one) and then another one thats like NEC or marvell or whatever. And you have to install the separate drivers for that. Normally those separate drivers for that 2nd port are on the manufacture website and on the CD that came with the mobo.

As for bios, your manual should mention stuff about this. In my abit mobo, the bios has an enable disable setting for a) ONBOARD NV LAN and b) ONBOARD MARVELL LAN

One way to tell is check the list of hardware you have installed in the device manager. If there's yellow ? or a red mark on something there, it probably means you need a driver.