connecting a lan with a cable

[Guest]

ive got two computers, both fairly good ones, one has a ethernet card, one is
a 'Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC' , the other is a '3com
etherlink xl 10/100 pci tx nic (3c905b-tx)'. All i have is one cable then
stretches from each plug on each computer.... i plug it in, and setup all the
workgroup stuff on both computers, no matter what i do it says that 'a
network cable is unplugged' on both pcs.

 

[Carey Holzman]

www.careyholzman.com/netfixes.htm

Carey

 

[Lou Ramsey]

www.careyholzman.com/netfixes.htm

Ross,

The Windows platform (including Windows 9x and NT/2000/XP) has its
networking infrastructure based upon TCP/IP, with NetBIOS Over TCP/IP
(NBT) used as an interface between TCP/IP and the various networking
applications.

Any properly configured installation of Windows will run just fine with
these components.

Be selective when accepting advice, web pages or otherwise, that
contains instructions to install redundant and unnecessary components,
such as IPX/SPX or NetBEUI. Adding these extra components may serve as
a workaround, but will add needless complications that may cause
problems in the future.

 

[Carey Holzman]

Beware of people suggesting you NOT try something. Any time help is offered,
my recommendation is you try it all to figure out what works. Only you can
determine that. No one else. None of the advice offered is harmful in
anyway.

Carey

 

[Guest]

Thanks Carey, no need to reply to this, i didn't have a crossover cable, so
i'm going to get one of those now.