At 01:17 AM 12/3/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>OK, so RG-58A/U coax? That's thin Ethernet/ 10Base-2. You need 2 Tee
>connectors and two 50 ohm terminator caps.
Actually, it's arcnet wire. got the terminators and connectors, and tested
them all good.
>
>First question: Do the boards show up in device manager on the System
>control panel? I use "view devices by type" and look under Network Adapters.
>If so (that NE1000 worked!?!) then you've got a chance. If not, work on the
>drivers until you get them working.
Yep, they both came up fine, but I since solved this, see below...
>
>Having the second NIC out is a good idea too. That NE1000 will have some
>nasty jumpers that need to get set to reasonable values, and you probably
>need to manually set up the driver to use these. Get that info!
Didn't need a driver, but yes, jumpers were related...
>
>Win98 SE has some sort of Internet connection sharing built in, or you could
>use something like WinProxy or Sygate and make one of these the gateway for
>now. I WOULD go Linux ASAP for flexibility, but you're not stuck as-is.
oh, this is news! hmm, don't think I have SE, think I've got the first
one, pretty sure actually. winproxy could work. I don't know if it
matters for now.
Here's what's happened:
I tested the wires, terminators, etc. All good.
Then I started to think that maybe something about that smc card was funny,
lets look it up on the net. Well, turns out that to use the PNP option,
"soft configuration" requires a special utility. IOW, it isn't PnP as I'd
thought. Okay, set the jumpers via the diagram on the net (jumpers are
easy if you have diagrams)
Then I put it back. Awww, heck, still not. Yank the NE1000 and get fancy
with jumpers again. All this time I'm thinking I might have to set jumpers
to select which cabling on these combo cards, but nope, the NE1000 is also
suffering jumper to setting conflict. Okay, fix that, Hey! Presto it works!
So, I've got all my internet apps on one machine, internet on the other.
yah, I could install a proxy, or try sticking the internet card back in the
first machine and see if maybe this time it'll tolerate two nics.
Yep, it didn't choke again, that was nice. So, the second one now is hard
drive storage and print server. I'd like to be able to send more resource
use over there, perhaps the talkworks pro and voice modem, but there's a
shortage of com ports there so it would be between a mouse or a modem
(ext). For now at least, I've got extra space and when I want to print I
won't have to wait for the print job to finish before returning to work,
the primary priority in this whole game at the outset.
Thanks for all the help, hope I provided an educational experience for
others as well as myself, check those jumpers folks, every time!!
I'll wait with the linux server till I've got some linux knowledge I think.
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