Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:48:21 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:37:33 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > snip 8<----------------------- >> Now.... is all of the above just about as clear as mud ??? ;-) > Yes, pretty much ;-) > When I installed the drivers that came with the TCP-LINK network card, > the only instructions for installing in DOS were for a client driver. > Perhaps this has been the cause of my problems. So for now I have gone > back to a clean boot, without loading the client software. > The question (the first of many) is do I need driver software for the > ethernet card? > And the questions that naturally follow: > 1. What is the router? Is this something else I need to install? > 2. How do I find what IP address it wants to use? > At this stage I am getting thoroughly confused. I think I need to go > right back to the beginning and start afresh.... > Step 1: open the computer case and fit the ethernet card: DONE! > Step 2: connect the cable between that card and the ethernet card on the > XP computer: DONE! > Step 3: Do a clean boot of the DOS computer: DONE! > Now what do you suggest I should do next? So-far... we know this.... You have an NIC card in each of the 2 computers. You have loaded the packet driver on the DOS computer via rstpkt.com 0x60 WinXP on the other machine recognizes and can use its NIC However.... since you ask.... "what is a router"..... I must now ask.... In what manner are the 2 computers physically connected to each other ? Do you have a router ? Do you have a switch ? Do you have a hub ? _________________________________________________________________________ This is how they need to get connected. computer_#1<----->router, switch or hub<----->computer_#2 It won't work with simply one end of a CAT5 cable plugged into each NIC computer_#1<----cat5---->computer_#2 The only way that this will work is if you have what amounts to the same as a 'nulmodem' cable or 'laplink' cable but made from cat5 cable. In-order to do the setup without a router, switch or hub, the cat5 cable must have the transmit & receive lines reversed like so.... computer#1_tx<------>computer_#2_rcv computer#1_rcv<------>computer_#2_tx -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/msdog.html http://www.glennmcc.org/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --