Windows 98 and Ethernet Card

[xxsilk109xx]

I know, the title is funny..
A customer brings me an old tower, im surprisingly it still runs, however it does not have ethernet.
I have an older 3com card in here that was pulled out of a machine, I installed it and amazingly windows 98 already had the driver on tap for the install!!

However it is not connecting to the internet...

Windows 98 was a little before I got into computers the way I am now and I would like to know if there are any settings that I need to change in order for it to work.
The lights on the back of the card seem to be working, the AC light flashes everytime it tries to ping a website, but with no results.

It cant ping any other computers on my network either.

 

[Martyn]

I know, the title is funny..
A customer brings me an old tower, im surprisingly it still runs, however it does not have ethernet.
I have an older 3com card in here that was pulled out of a machine, I installed it and amazingly windows 98 already had the driver on tap for the install!!

However it is not connecting to the internet...

Windows 98 was a little before I got into computers the way I am now and I would like to know if there are any settings that I need to change in order for it to work.
The lights on the back of the card seem to be working, the AC light flashes everytime it tries to ping a website, but with no results.

It cant ping any other computers on my network either.

I take it you did a reboot? I remember the tcp/ip protocol stack didn't bind until you did a reboot.

 

[xxsilk109xx]

yes I have rebooted several times, and doing it again right now. I have it set to auto obtain ip address and such.

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

Has it obtained an IP address? Can it ping the default gateway? Will it ping any further?

 

[xxsilk109xx]

when i type ipconfig and hit enter, it tells me on ethernet adapter 2
ip address is 10.1.10.11
gateway is 255.255.255.0
def gateway 10.1.10.1

 

[xxsilk109xx]

yes it can ping the default gateway of 10.1.10.1, which matches my isp

 

[NETWizz]

Maybe if you reboot it again... it may take 3 or 4 reboots.

Did DHCP really pickup the DNS servers etc. I don't know if it has nslookup, but surely you can ping google.com or some other domain name.

Oh, and I think it is winipcfg not ipconfig on Win 9x


^^^^^^ Personally, I don't think you should have taken the job... I would support nothing older than Windows XP, and everybody has their hardware cut-off. If it has SD-RAM don't fix the hardware. If it has DDR or newer, it MIGHT be new enough to fix if there is a very cheap part that you have left over.

Either way the only systems that are economomical to repair generally have at LEAST DDR2 Memory, a Socket 775 processor, and SATA drives. If you get a system with DDR1, Socket 478, and some IDE drives, it doesn't hardly matter what's wrong with it... it is going to be more expensive to buy a replacement part than to upgrade. When you weigh in the labor vs. performance gain... anything below the DDR2, Socket 775, & SATA generation are not economical to repair.

 

[Martyn]

What about pinging a website, name resolves ok?

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

So it'll ping the gateway but not other devices on the same network. Is that subnet mask correct? Has dhcp assigned dns addresses?

 

[xxsilk109xx]

guys i appreciate the help, however when I told her I was having issues, she just now decided to buy one of my old towers, much newer than hers, lol for 75 bucks.

Once I showed her XP she was delighted at the difference and how fast the internet worked lol.

Thanks for the help and the stroll down memory lane!

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

Excellent, everyone's a winner!

 

[Martyn]

guys i appreciate the help, however when I told her I was having issues, she just now decided to buy one of my old towers, much newer than hers, lol for 75 bucks.

Once I showed her XP she was delighted at the difference and how fast the internet worked lol.

Thanks for the help and the stroll down memory lane!

Damn just getting into it

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

Damn just getting into it

Too true. Shall we ask to borrow it for an hour each?

 

[xxsilk109xx]

haha thanks again guys.....no about my windows xp updates not working hmmmm

previous thread lol

 

[NETWizz]

when i type ipconfig and hit enter, it tells me on ethernet adapter 2
ip address is 10.1.10.11
gateway is 255.255.255.0
def gateway 10.1.10.1

That's intersting... I am pretty confident Windows 98 doesn't have ipconfig... I thought it was winipcfg... Maybe it is just newer versions of Windows don't have winipcfg.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

That's intersting... I am pretty confident Windows 98 doesn't have ipconfig... I thought it was winipcfg... Maybe it is just newer versions of Windows don't have winipcfg.

WINIPCFG brought up the GUI showing network properties in Win9X (95 and 98)

IPCONFIG could be typed at the DOS prompt (command.com) in Win9X and show basically similar stuff to what we see in NT (NT4/2k/xp/etc etc)

Always wondered why they got rid of the quick GUI "winipcfg" for NT....was so handy to get to performing network stuff like viewing status, /renew, etc.