network gurus, please help!!!!!

SIHOLLIES · Dec 4, 2003

Hi People

I was round at a friends today trying to install a simple home network, which is primarily for internet connection sharing.
He has a BT VOYAGER 100 ADSL MODEM and a D-LINK DFE-530TX Network card installed in his host and client machines.
His modem connects via the usb.

The network cards are showing with no errors in device manager, but i failed to create the LAN.
The host connects to the net with no probs, but i cant get the clien machine working.
I have tried running the network wizard ( which i've done a million times at home ) and inputting the ip , default gateway dns etc. manually, but i cant get it working.
I have disabled all firewalls and tried pinging the host ip address, that failed too.
They are running XP Home.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Si
( told him to try installing the

AOL

software again)

DickyDick · Dec 5, 2003

And the host machine is having how many network cards?

LTR12101B · Dec 5, 2003

Is there a LINK indication? - if going direct from one card to another (no hub) the cable must be crossover wired.

scarecrow · Dec 5, 2003

I really hate that "home network wizard" that's present on XP- its one of the most idiotic things Gates ever invented.
Have you tried to bridge your ethernet and USB interfaces by hand? (*settings/network connections, hold down the control button, click on both icons, rightclick and select "bridge...").

SIHOLLIES · Dec 7, 2003

Thanks for the input guys.

DickyDick: there is 1 card in the host and 1 card in the client, as there is a USB connection from the modem. ( I am no network wizaed, but i think this is correct )

LTR12101B ( I used to have one of those drives mate, and glad to see you using Liteon

) : I stupidly didnt check if it was a cross over cable, as my colleague said he specified to the staff in the shop what he wanted to do , so i assumed they gave him a cross over cable( i e mailed him yesterday, to see if it was a X over)

scarecrow: Thanks for that advice and no i havent tried that, cos, i didnt know you could do that!!, so thanx very much for that, as i love to learn.

Thanx again guys, and i'll keep you informed

si

LTR12101B · Dec 7, 2003

I was thinking of the GREEN link LEDs (typically), but I suppose that would be echoed by the connected/disconnected indication in XP - if it doesn't detect that it's connected, any further debugging is useless until the lower layer is resolved.

DickyDick · Dec 7, 2003

SIHOLLIES said:
Thanks for the input guys.

DickyDick: there is 1 card in the host and 1 card in the client, as there is a USB connection from the modem. ( I am no network wizaed, but i think this is correct )

LTR12101B ( I used to have one of those drives mate, and glad to see you using Liteon ) : I stupidly didnt check if it was a cross over cable, as my colleague said he specified to the staff in the shop what he wanted to do , so i assumed they gave him a cross over cable( i e mailed him yesterday, to see if it was a X over)

scarecrow: Thanks for that advice and no i havent tried that, cos, i didnt know you could do that!!, so thanx very much for that, as i love to learn.

Thanx again guys, and i'll keep you informed

si

Looks to me then that if you can't ping the host it's getting a dhcp ip address assigned so in that case I go with scarecrow.