Problems installing 10/100 PCMCIA on home network

[ApexJim]

I'm having no luck with this upgrade. I have 2 laptops networked successfully through a Linksys 4 port cable router. The cable modem is a Surf Board SB8310. Laptop2 has a Xircom 10/100 card that connects to router @ 100mbps. Machine I'm trying to upgrade has a 3Com 589E 10/Base T card. Both laptops show up in Network Neighborhood, file transfers are fine, printers work.

So far I've tried installing 3 different cards w/o success. They are Noteworthy Ethernet 100Base-TX Lan Cardbus Card NWETH 100/T; Ethernet ThinLan-120 32Bit Cardbus; and a Linksys 10/100 Cardbus. Out come is the same with all. The router port lights up as does the dongle light. The Linksys and ThinLan show a Full Duplex connection. Control Panel/System shows the cards are properly installed.

Just now experimenting with the Linksys I actually briefly surfed the web. However, that was after closing a box saying I did not have a connection.

Two of these cards were new in the box so I don't believe they could all be bad. Plus the router is lighting up and there are no error messages during install.

Any suggestions or strategies would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jimbopalmer]

one idea to diagnose the problem, if you force it to 10 mbps, does it work?

if so, the issue will be in your cables, and auto negotiation. I love everyone til they prove otherwise, sadly some prove otherwise SO quickly

 

[ApexJim]

I gave it a try but no joy. The router lights came up as if it was a 10baseT connection but I could not establish a web connection.

I'm running on a Winbook XL2 333 w/256megs memory. These laptops are kind of touchy about somethings. Anybody got any experience w/a Linksys PCMPC200 in a Winbook?

 

[ApexJim]

Update:

I'd done it before but I tried again to install all three cards into my wife's Dell Latitude. No joy. However, the Xircom Cardbus Ethernet II card is working in my Winbook.
So I'm just going to buy another Xircom and be done with it. I'm still amazed the Linksys card wouldn't work.
The whole deal seems pretty wierd.

 

[ApexJim]

Update:

I've added an identical Xircom card to my computer. It connects to the Internet and I can see my computer in Network Neighborhood. My wife's computer does not show up. I can Ping it but not establish a connection.

If I plug my 3Com card back in then she shows up.

There has to be a setting someplace that needs changing. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

By the way. She's coming through a 10/100 Autosensing hub from NDC Communicatins. I tried plugging her directly into the Linksys Cable router w/o success.

 

[ApexJim]

Update:

It turns out the IP address on the Xircom and Linksys cards on my laptop were not being updated. I tried to release w/Winipcfg w/o success. As a workaround I assigned static ip addresses. I had to also add my ISPs DNS server addresses to the DNS list as just assigning my router as the gateway wasn't getting it done.