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nic card wont work

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garebo

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May 29, 2002
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Hope this is the right place to put this thread.
I have a few nic cards, all same. Only markings on them are:

ID:0003B3002BE5 and RCH01322208475 (This number has bar codes above)

the chip has these markings:
RTL8139C
OC29A1
1018 TAIWAN

I tried the pre 1998 and after 1998 FCC sites and got nowhere for the first time ever with the markings as above.
I tried 2 other driver sites like windrivers, no luck.

The floppy that came with it has this marked on outside:

RC-8139
10/100 Mbps
Fast Ethernet Lan

When I install the nic to win98se, windows says it is a Realtek8139 and installs from the win98cd once it uses an "inf" file that came from the site below.

I went to the website to this page and there are a literal ton of drivers for every os you can think of except a few:

Looks like it may be a Realtek8139 nic but I cant get it to work in win98se. It works in "network neighbourhood" and I can get onto my other computer and transfer files and so on. Works real well there but I cannot get onto the internet. I get the standard white page. I have tried all different settings in internet explorer, turned zonealarm pro off, cant remember if I turned antivirus off, have to check on that one.
These 2 computers are both running in win98se but I have them set up for win xp pro as well, havent tried the nic there yet but it wont work in win 98se.
Makes me wonder if I have the correct drivers but windows98se recognizes it as a Realtek 8139, it says RC-8139 on the floppy that came with it, so maybe I have the right drivers, but I cant get on the internet with it. My setup is cable modem with 2 win98 se, 2 nic cards, 1Boca Research 4 port hub, necessary cat 5 cables. This configuration I have had for years and all other nic cards, including but not limited to a Netgear FA311 work on it so its not the fault of the isp?


Any advice or help here?

Thanks in advance.
 
You might try locking the cards at 10mbps. Should be a configuration utility on the driver disk. Since the computers talk, the cards are OK. So you have a problem with the cards talking to the hub. You also need to consider that it is a hub problem. Ed Fair
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