re: Help w/ network problems please
Monday, March 11, 2002 at 5:36 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Briand
(8 messages posted)
Ok, first things first.
You said you had an "intermittent" blinking link lights. If you have two LED's then
one is the link light and the other is an activity indicator (most likely). If the
link light is blinking then I would remove all of the networking components including
the driver for the NIC in question (You have your Win2K box to find the driver. Hopefully
it will fit on a single floppy unless you have a burner and a CDROM drive in the
Win98 box. If you don't have a burner then download a file splitter and break the
file up over floppy’s). You need a solid link light before you try any other troubleshooting
steps (If you had only one LED then it is probably supposed to blink intermittently).
On Monday, March 11, 2002 at 3:05 pm, Don wrote:
>Hi, I'm having trouble with a computer on my new home network(1 PC running Win98,
>the other running Win2k Pro., the problem is with the Win98 Machine so I posted
in
>this forum). I've tried removing and reinstalling TCP/IP in network properties,
>but nothing seems to help. I am using a D-link network switch and a Linksys Cable/DSL
>router to share my cable connection with my network. All connections are correct,
>and I've switched cables to be sure it isn't just a bad patch cable, and tried switching
>ports on the hub/switch and still had no luck. The link lights on the network switch
>and NIC for the computer in question(Win98) are intermittent, while the ones for
>the other computer(Win2k Pro)and the router are both constantly on or blinking in
>unison with network activity. The Win98 machine can intermittently see the Win2k
>machine in network neigborhood, and vice-versa, but the Win98 box can't find the
>router, while the other comp. can, and the same holds true with internet access(I'm
>typing this message from the Win2k machine because the Win98 one won't connect)
>I've had a problem similar to this before I had the network, and I ended up reinstalling
>the networking components for Win98 from the install CD, problem is that I can't
>remember which CAB files contain them. Does anyone here have any ideas? I was
previously
>considering upgrading to WinXP on my Win98 machine, does anyone think this would
>help/solve the problem (I'm sure WinXP probably has new networking components that
>would install over the Win98 ones) Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Don
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