NEed Help: Cant Access Internet, w/WinME, Router, DSL

[ajaju]

I am trying the following network at home:
Desktop: Win98Se
Laptop: WinME
Router: Netgear RT314
DSL: Belsouth (PPPoE)

The configuration works totally fine at desktop. I can access net, browse webpages, access files on the laptop. However when I try to do the same from the lappy.... I can just view the files on the Desktop. No Internet connectivity. Cant browse any websites. I checked TCP/IP settings. They seem ok. Tried unistalling and reinstalling them back... no help. Made sure that the TCP/IP is bound with the NIC (Netgear FA410TX).

Any help would be highly appreciated.
thanks

 

[ktwebb]

Do you have any other protocols installed that would enable LAN connectivity? If not, I would troubleshoot as a DNS issue. Can your router pass ICMP (pinging) traffic to the WAN from the ME client? If so, try pinging a public IP and if that works ping the domain name. If that doesnt work then it is DNS. You might try statically adding DNS info on the problem client.

 

[ajaju]

Thanks for the help. It worked !

1) there are no other protocols installed. Actually I tried installing them and then removed it. No good either way.
2) I cannot ping to either Router WAN IP or any other public IP from the problem client.
3) Tried Statically defining the DNS. However, on top of this I had to specify a LAN IP to the lappy as well. But doing this... it worked great!

Is there anything that I need to do to get rid of this problem and make it run "normally" or should I let this lappy run like this.

thanks for the help.