Have a Laptop running Windows 98SE and a Fast Ethernet 10/100 Linksys card. Have set it up according to the manual. Also have an older desktop into which I have put a card. It detected it and seemed to be okay but I still can't communicate. They are cabled together correctly. It did say that the Network adapter should be used in a 32-bit PCI slot that supports PCI Bus Mastering and cannot be plugged into a PCI Bus Slave slot. If I had it in the wrong slot, would it have detected it? Am running Windows 95 on the desktop. Haven't ever tried this. I clicked on Network Neighbourhood and with the right click of the mouse on the C drive expected it to ask me about sharing files. I am assuming that if both machines are connected properly they would show up on either screen. Am I right. Help would be appreciated.

WEll, there is more to making computer see each other than just getting a network card installed and cabled to connect them...

First, you need both network cards installed properly. SOunds like you have that.

Then, on both computers, you need to go to control panel, and in there, make sure both of them have NetBeui for the network card. You will see your network card adapter in there, but having NetBeui is a good thing to have installed cause it requires no setup really.

Next, in the Network applet, go under identification, and name each computer, and make sure they are a member of the same workgroup. Also, install File and Print Sharing. Finally, after rebooting both computers after adding those items to your network, go to windows explorer, and right click on the folder or drive you want to share, and click properties, and click sharing tab, and tell it to share it and give it a share name. Share at least one folder or drive on each computer. Then, go to network neighboorhood, and see if you can see each other, you should be able to.

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Joe Redd
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Discovered that I don't have the driver for the Ether Fast 10/100 PC Card. I tried to download from Linksis but each time I tried to get it to detect new hardware it asked for a disk. I tried loading the driver from Linkis onto the A drive and fooling it into thinking this was the driver but it still asked for information about the hardware so I guess I'm going to have to obtain a new driver disc (I bought the laptop secondhand ...the previous owner is looking for the disc). the other tips are great and I will do this once the driver is installed unless you know of anyway I can get around the "have the disc" thing.

Did you extract the driver or are you trying to use it as it was downloaded? Most drivers are self extracting files, and have to be unzipped into a folder before installation. If not unzipped, you'll get the "disk not found" message, or "no information regarding this device at that location".

To unzip it, just double click the .exe file in Windows Explorer, and have it already located in the folder you want it to be in.

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If this is a 10BaseT setup, doesn't it need a hub?

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To be honest am not sure what you mean by hub. There is a small connector which attaches to the card and the RJ45 cable from the computer's card plugs into the connector. I think a lot will be sorted once I can get the driver.
Originally posted by Reid:
If this is a 10BaseT setup, doesn't it need a hub?

A hub is a centralized connection point, used in Fast Ethernet configurations. Linksys has a very good resource of information at: http://www.linksys.com/faqs/default.asp?fqid=15
You should find what you need to know there.

I have only worked a little with 10Base2 and phoneline networks.


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