Another update.
After more experimenting, we found that if we run everything the way I had it to begin with, with the exception of putting the wire that led to the laptop, into the uplink on the hub, and then ran a wire to the laptop from there. It worked that way.
A friend of mine brought over a hub, and we did a 2 comp network through that...which worked fine. (wasn't through cable modem or anything, just comp 2 comp). What I did notice though, is that when I use my router, (and the same went for his computer) the link lights were orange. What does...
I'm getting the 169.xxx.xxx.xx IP. I tried to set it static at the 192.168.xxx.xxx, but that was no help.
Im not sure how to adjust the pcmcia card to force it to 10 megs...
Also, the cable is good, I've tried everything that way.
How do I check the "NIC" card?
Thanks for the help...
I was thinking the same thing (it's the laptop). I actually just tried plugging directly into the cable modem...no luck there. Would it be a bad adapter then, or what?
The link lights come on, and if I unplug the cable it says "network cable unplugged". So, it DOES detect it...it...
xp firewall off. (no others)
DHCP enabled.
auto is on.
didn't try anything.
powered down.
rebooted.
no luck.
I hate taking stuff back. :(
hehe..any other ideas?
I recently bought a NE nr041 router to supply my cable modem access to multiple computers. The problem lies in that, I can't get the 2nd computer (a laptop) to connect to the router at all. I'm completely confused as to why it is not working. All settings appear to be correct, link lights are...
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