XP Pro networked to 98SE NOt WORKING

[Guest]

I am trying to network my computer (XP Pro) to another in my house (98SE).
Mine is connected to the internet through a cable modem. I have a Giga-byte
GA-K8NU-SLI motherboard. I have tried using the onboard LAN (1 I use for
internet connection) and the 3com ethernet card to connect the two computers
together. Nothing seems to work! When I connect the 98SE computer directly to
the internet it does not detect the connection.

Is the problem on the 98 comp or my comp? Any idea what I could do to fix
the problem? Thanks for any help you might be able to give.

 

[Guest]

I forgot to say that when I use the Network Setup Wizard it says my 3com
network connection is disconnected. All cables are connected.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

If the 3Com card is in the Windows 98 computer and is the one that's giving
you a cable disconnect error then there is a problem with the card or the
cabling between the card and whatever network device you're connecting it
to.

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[Bob Smith]

It sounds like you might have to different problems,,

FIRST
if you are connecting the win98 to Xp box with just a cable and not a
hub switch or router is it a crossover cable you are using? a std
cable will not work.


SECOND
it sounds like you are connecting to the cable modem with an ethernet
cable? if you are and the winXP machine works and the win98 machine
doesnt, first,,
1 did you connect to the winXP machine first?

if so, then you probably have to turn off the cable modem for about 1
minute turn the win98 machine off, plug the ethernet cable that came
with the modem into the modem and then into the win98 machine with the
win98 machine OFF.

plug the modem in, have it initialize, then turn on the win98 machine,
this way the cable modem with associate with the new MAC of the win98
ethernet card.

Cable modems usually will only associate with 1 MAC address, this is
why using a hub or switch to network computers to a cable modem will
not work.

LAST
Cable modems come two ways, one way is that they use a std cable to
connect from the modem to the ethernet card, the other way is they
come with a crossover cable because the internals of the cable modem
is like another network card so a std cable will not connect the two.

I've seen cable modems both ways, but most of the late cable modems
are wired internally to accept a std cable to make it easy for people
to connect the modem to the computer (cross over cables are hard to
find sometimes, but std cables are very easy to find).

hope this helps,