are you sure there aren't two ethernet cards in the box (perhaps one built into the motherboard ??)
otherwise (LOL) its a windoze question I think!! On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 17:59, Bill Evans wrote: > Richard, Andy, Keith > > Thanks for your suggestions. I implemented them and aquired more knowledge > in the process. > The cause of the problem became apparent when after trying your suggestions > without effect I decided to clean all unnecessary clutter from my Windows > network configurations. > > Network configuration shows two network adapters although there is only one > NIC. > One adapter is called NE2000 Compatible > the other is PLANET ENW-9503/04/PCI Fast Ethernet NIC. > I had been ignoring the first and concentrating on this second one > because the card is a 10/100 PCI and I understood it to be called a Fast > Ethernet card. > I removed the NE2000 adapter, thinking it to be redundant. > It was only when I rebooted and Windows told me it > had found new hardware, and reinstalled NE2000 that I decided to look at > it. Bingo - when I gave the NE2000 a static TCP/IP address the Windows > machine could ping itself and the two machines could ping each other. > > So now I wonder if someone could explain to me what the PLANET > ENW-9503/04/PCI Fast Ethernet NIC adapter is doing? I have tried its > TCP/IP > address with both "obtain automatically" and the same static address as > NE2000 without any apparent effect. > > Bill
