I often had this issue with Win9x, the fix for me was to remove everything
from the network control panel, reboot, then add it all back.
On Monday 27 August 2001 05:27 am, you wrote:
> On Monday 27 August 2001 01:29 am, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > I hate to ask this here... but I don't know of a better source of
> > information....
> >
> > I've got a clients win98 box that she wishes to place on a lan and share
> > internet
> > connections, with other users...
> >
> > Everyone else on the lan is setup perfectly. This one win98 box refuses
> > to see anything outside of it's own box. That is, I can ping localhost
> > and the host name and it
> > works perfectly... ping into the rest of the lan and it times out... no
> > connections. I've
> > done EVERYTHING except change the version of OS. I really mean that
> > too... I even
> > ran a new ethernet cable... swapped her nic for known good nic, her nic
> > worked in
> > another box, the one swapped into her computer didn't... I even tried
> > moving the
> > connection on the switch box end... all manner of twiddle and tweak in
> > the network
> > setup, etc... ipconfig shows the nic setup as eth0, winicfg look like
> > everything else
> > I've ever ran it on... The led's on the nic indicate good connect at
> > 100baset....
> >
> > I've done this type of setup a 1000 times before, but this one machine is
> > dead to the
> > net.
> >
> > Here's the kicker, Swap out her harddrive for one of mine and within a
> > few moments I'm browsing the inet and local samba shares like heaven...
> > WTF?
> >
> > Rotten windows 98 install?
> >
> > Pop her harddrive back into the machine, backup her most important data,
> > make a
> >
> > bunch of notes about where and what is in here install and reinstall
> > windows using
> > her copy of 98... after sitting though all this shit... SAME EXACT
> > symptoms! Physically
> > move another computer into this ones space... no problems.
> >
> > Now, this leads to my question.... Was there ever an edition of win98
> > that had a brain
> > dead tcpip stack on the cd? I think I've got one!
> >
> > The fix was to "illegally" use a co-worker's copy of 98se and... bingo...
> > it's doing what
> > she wanted!
> >
> > While I'm here... what is the last version of 98 called and does anyone
> > here have a
> > copy they'd like to sell or make a copy of?
>
> The last version was Win98ME and I have a copy of it but I wouldn't sell
> it to my worst enemy. And I wouldn't use it either. I replaced it with
> SE after about 3 months use.
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