Am I doing this correctly? PCMCIA Ethernet cards with crossover cable?

[pattyjamas]

Have Windows 98 laptop and new Dell WIndows XP laptop.
Bought new Dlink Ethernet PCMCIA cards.
Bought Crossover cable

Permanently (saved connection for boot) mapped X drive from Windows XP
machine to Toshiba Satellite Win 98 Second edition machine. Seemed to
work fine.


But..... is this normal-I think so but not sure (newbie at this)..

If the two units are turned on without the PCMCIA cards in and then we
insert the two cards - the mapping does not occur automatically and we
cannot cause it to occur. Cannot even see the Windows 98SE machine in
Network View. Even a Flush DNS does not help.

It is not until we insert the cards and reboot BOTH machines that it
will map correctly.
This makes sense to me...Is this correct?

Thanks, Patty

 

[Rick Wintjen]

Have Windows 98 laptop and new Dell WIndows XP laptop.
Bought new Dlink Ethernet PCMCIA cards.
Bought Crossover cable

Permanently (saved connection for boot) mapped X drive from Windows XP
machine to Toshiba Satellite Win 98 Second edition machine. Seemed to
work fine.


But..... is this normal-I think so but not sure (newbie at this)..

If the two units are turned on without the PCMCIA cards in and then we
insert the two cards - the mapping does not occur automatically and we
cannot cause it to occur. Cannot even see the Windows 98SE machine in
Network View. Even a Flush DNS does not help.

It is not until we insert the cards and reboot BOTH machines that it
will map correctly.
This makes sense to me...Is this correct?

Thanks, Patty

If Windows can't reconnect to a mapped drive at startup, it removes it
from the list until it can. Since your network isn't established unless
you reboot, you can't connect the drive.
It sounds like the drivers for your NICs aren't creating the network
connections except at boot; since this works on my laptop with Win XP
under the same conditions, perhaps you only have to reboot the Win98
machine and repair the connections on the Win XP machine. Open Network
Connections, selecting the NIC, then use the right-click menu to
'Repair' the connection in WinXP, after rebooting the Win98 machine. I
don't use Win98 anymore, so don't know of an equivalent process for it.

 

[pattyjamas]

Thanks. This is what I thought.
Have a great day
Patty