Win 98 and 2k SE And LAN

[Solntse]

i got win 98 se on desktop that cannot establish lan connection to hop on the intrernet, i connect through linksys 4 port router connected to motorola sb5100. it sort of looks like it is getting ip, but none for gateway.

same thing for w2k on the same machine

the nic, wires and/or router are not the problem, because i used and use router and same cables on diff. systems and they work.

the connection seems to exist also on networks with static ip, that i use sometimes with my laptop.

is there a configuration im missing for win98 and broadband??

thx

[Ron Kinner]

on the 2k set up to obtain an IP address automatically and plugged in the router: Open a cmd (DOS) window and type:

ipconfig /all

that should show you if it has an IP address and gateway set. (If it's 169.something then its bogus. Should probably be 192.168.something).

Now type

ipconfig /renew

If it times out then either its NIC is dead or disabled, the cable is bad, the router is not doing DHCP or the router's port is dead. ipconfig should complain if the cable is bad or the port is bad or disabled.

Bet it's your router - either set up wrong or dead.

Ron

[Solntse]

Ron, I got everything working.
Again there absolutely NO PROBLEM WITH EITHER NIC CARDS, ROUTER, NOR CABLE MODEM.
The problem was that when i did upgraded to w2k (clean instal), my isa ports werent working (went south( big time)) @ the moment I had Phoebe 56k v90 modem, & the system wouldn't recognize it nor the isa ports. Also, in device manager com 1 & 2 were under exclamation mark, so I went with the bios update (which was supposed to fix it), and the update didn't worked right (ended up with nonbootable system, in other words "DEAD"), so I had to pull the chip out and send to ASUS for "Free Flash + $5 shipping back to me via UPS." When I got the darn thing back ( in nice turnaround time) I poped it back in, booted into w2k and everything was working right, until I started Intalling drivers for my ATI ALL IN WONDER VIDEO CARD-AGP, and SOUNDBLASTER LIVE VALUE-PCI, for both I went to manufacturers websites. Well, i guess that those werent too much of compatability with each other in w2k, worked a lot better under win98 SE. Blaster's drivers didn't detected the presense of the caard, ATI's w2k drivers page turned out to be XP's drivers suppoer page - why?? I have no idea.

So, I ended up with conflicts all over the system, it even knocked out nic card.

Later on messing around with the system I found out that nic can ping its assigned ip on my home network, but it would show up as a part of the network nor see any other computer on it.

Eventually, I traced problem down to bios, and to a clean reinstall of w2k only with video and nic installed.

I guess it is about time to do little upgrading after five year old stable in SE system.

[Solntse]

i should of added this earlier. the support page that was supposed to be for w2k ati all in wonder pro, not only tured out to be for xp and not for w2k, but it was also for pci card.

mine is agp, ati all in wonder pro.

there seems to be a little out there on their website.

[Solntse]

just threw other nic made by the same company in it and it wont get on the net. wont even repair the settings for the connection either.

the address of it is 169.254.236.15

i'm exated of trying to get this thing to work and it is just this only one nic like that, it was working before just fine then it became this way, luckuly i had another one installed no problems, i really wanna know whats up??

is there like a firmware update??

it made by belkin by the way