network wizard lies to me...

[Lutz Huesch]

Good afternoon from Oz,

My new XP SP2 installation on a clean new computer won't let me connect
to my home network or shared internet connection on a Win2K machine.

The wizard lets me set up a network connection, then want to make me
prepare a floppy to take to the other machines, including the ICS gateway.

There is NO floppy in my new 64bit beastie, and all the relevant options
are turned off in the BIOS on the ABIT main board.

I expected to be able to write the network wizardry to a CD or DVD on
the Pioneer DVD drive (DVR-108 OEM) but the damn agent tells me i have
NO floppy (true) or removable media (patently untrue).

Could one expect MS to junk some of the archaic stuff in its O/S, and
replace it with updated gear?!

And incidentally, I note the driver for my Pioneer is an MS-written bit
of code dating back to 2001...

Without Internet access (my modem won't hack it under XP) or ICS I can't
easily search for updated drivers

Thanks for any suggestions!


L.M.Huesch

NB: I fooled the system once to connect to the network and dial out via
the gateway, but then changed something because the XP machine was
constantly trying to dial out without my say-so (probably to update
itself...)

Cheers

 

[WTC]

Good afternoon from Oz,

My new XP SP2 installation on a clean new computer won't let me connect to
my home network or shared internet connection on a Win2K machine.

The wizard lets me set up a network connection, then want to make me
prepare a floppy to take to the other machines, including the ICS gateway.

There is NO floppy in my new 64bit beastie, and all the relevant options
are turned off in the BIOS on the ABIT main board.

I expected to be able to write the network wizardry to a CD or DVD on the
Pioneer DVD drive (DVR-108 OEM) but the damn agent tells me i have NO
floppy (true) or removable media (patently untrue).

Could one expect MS to junk some of the archaic stuff in its O/S, and
replace it with updated gear?!

And incidentally, I note the driver for my Pioneer is an MS-written bit of
code dating back to 2001...

Without Internet access (my modem won't hack it under XP) or ICS I can't
easily search for updated drivers

Thanks for any suggestions!


L.M.Huesch

NB: I fooled the system once to connect to the network and dial out via
the gateway, but then changed something because the XP machine was
constantly trying to dial out without my say-so (probably to update
itself...)

Cheers

Use the Networking Wizard from the XP Setup CD.

 

[Lutz Huesch]

Use the Networking Wizard from the XP Setup CD.

If you mean: stick the WinXP CD into the other machine and run the
wizard from there - no dice! I get a message it doesn't work with Win2K,
only 98, 95 etc.

But I'll try it in the XP machine and see what happens! Thanks in any
case for your reply.

LMH