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re: Linksys fine with XP
Thursday, November 22, 2001 at 6:17 pm
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Posted by Patrick (2 messages posted)

FWIW, I wasted over 40 hours dealing with the same circumstances, i.e., my home DSL Linksys Router LAN was made up of 6 WIN98SE PCs and running just fine. Then, smart me installs XP on the PCs!! The result was an absolutly dead LAN. No IP would respond to ipconfig nor ping nor anything else. Everything was taken apart and put together several times and just nothing. Really nothing. Then, following an attempted troubling shooting of one PC-LAN-DSL, I forgot to move the ROuter X (crossover) switch back to straight through when hooking the entire network back together. Guess what, the LAN now operates normal!!! I am only reporting my experience. I can not technically explain why this happend on my LAN but it did and it is now operating with the ROuter switch set on X. Any comments? Patrick

On Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 1:02 am, Jim wrote:
>Just finished installing XP pro over 98 and all went well except the network connection
>using Linksys 4 port router that had been fine with 98. To get the system to see
>the router I first had to install Client for MS Networks ... Only TCP was installed
>with the system. Then I still couldn't connect to the router so I set a fixed IP
>address ... I used 192.168.1.4 because I have three other systems connected and their
>IP addresses are from 1 to 3. Then rebooted machine and was able to connect to the
>router through the browser. Then went to the DHCP tab and disabled and then enabled
>the DHCP. Then removed the permanent IP address from the XP computer and rebooted
>and Voila! I was connected. Some of these steps may be redundant but that it what
>got me connected. Good luck.

Written in response to:: Linksys fine with XP (Jim: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 1:02 am)

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Does Linksys Support XP? (Nate W: Mon, Nov 19, 2001, 4:19 pm)

re: Does Linksys Support XP? (corin: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 8:19 am)

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re: Linksys fine with XP (Patrick: Thu, Nov 22, 2001, 6:17 pm)

re: Does Linksys Support XP? (Patrick: Thu, Nov 22, 2001, 6:44 pm)

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