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Think you can solve my networking problems??

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Frost

Senior member
IT sure would be good if you could!! 🙂 Ok here is whats going on: I have 2 computers in my house. 1 (the server) is mine, and the other is my moms. Mine is running Win2k, and hers is running Win98.

Server specs=
Enlight 7237 mid tower with 300watt power supply
Abit KT7A-Raid with WW bios
Thunderbird 1.1ghz @ 9x133x1.775v
(1) 256meg Pc133 stick of micron
Radeon 64meg ViVo
ISA soundblaster awe64
(1) PCI linkseys network everywhere fast Nc100 v2 (for network) (pci4)
(1) PCI linkseys network everywhere fast LNX100 V4 I think its called. (for cable) (pci2)
IBM 75GXP 45gigger running Win2k
5x CL DVD drive
8/4/32x plextor burner

Moms computer=
Enlight 7237 midtower case with 250 watt psu
BX6 r2 with fairly recent bios
Slot 1 Celeron 400 @ anywhere from 400-500
192megs pc100 (1 128, 2 32s)
AGP tnt1
PCI Vortex1
PCI network everywhere fast LNX100 V4 (for network)
PCI modem (should I take this out now??)
4gig hard-drive Running Win98SE
50x sony cdrom


OK HERE IS MY PROBLEM:

The 2 LNX100 v4 network cards came with a networking kit that included a hub. I have gotten the network to run with those 2 nics, and Win98SE on bot computers. NOW I am trying to run one of the LNX100 v4s with my cable, because the nic that came with the cable modem won't for the life of me work correctly. So I finally switched it with one of the nics from out network kit, and it works great! But now I want to use the nic that was originally for the cable modem in my computer, and the second nic from the network kit in my moms computer to do a home network, and also setup ICS. I am unfamiliar how I would do this with Win2k, and the few things I have tried aren't working at all. Whenever I have the second network setup (the one from my computer to my moms) my cable stops working! Any ideas/rules of thumb that might help me get this finished quicker??? TIA

Cheers.
 
I have heard that computers with more than one network card can have networking problems because of the more than one card.

On my systems at home, I have an 8 port switch and all of my computers (3 to 5, depending) have their one network card each connected to this switch. My DSL modem is also connected to the network switch. I have manually assigned IP addresses to each computer (network card, tcp/ip) in the range 192.168.0.xx, where xx is a number unique to each computer. Subnet set to 255.255.255.0 for all. Beings my dsl provider will let me have up to three dynamic ip addresses for dsl use at one time, I can have up to three computers online at once.

My dsl software (and zonealarm firewall) is installed on each computer. Works fine.

Paul
 
Plug the two network cards into your computer and the one to your mom's. Install them. Go into Network settings and click the box to turn on ICS. If it doesn't work, uncheck that box, go to the other NIC and check the box on it. Should work then.
 
I think that I may just go get another card like the 2 that work... Any problems that could arise from haveing 2 of the exact same nic in one computer???
 
Other than having them show up with the same name in device manager no... You can name each one what you want for recognition purposes though.
 
First thing that sticks out to me is the fact you're oc'ing the first computer. Thus the PCI bus is being clocked as well. NIC cards are sensitive to OC'ing. Try running the T'bird at normal speed.
 
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