You've probably looked at this already...but... Have a look in Control Panel / System / Device Manager on the 95 machine and go Properties on the network card. See if it reports that the network card is operating correctly. Chech the settings for the card, I/O, IRQ etc. Windows occasionally gets them wrong !!! Check the driver... is it correct ?
Next try swapping the connection on the hub of the non-gateway linux machine and the 95/98 machine and test them both to eliminate a faulty hub. Last resort, try turning off Plug and Pray (Play) and setting the IRQ for the card manually in the bios and try again. Ian -----Original Message----- From: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:41 PM To: debian-user Subject: Re: [OT] windows networking issue On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:27:21PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hi Rob... > > I would guess its a hardware issue.... > > Either the nic in the win9x box is flaky... or the cable or something.... > > Keep troubleshooting... do you have an extra nic or cable...? > > Hmmm ... I took the card from one of the working linux boxes (bravo) > and put it in the windows box, and had similar if not identical > behavior. Also, the windows box does correctly get its DHCP > information on boot; it just mysteriously stops using the interface > after that. > > I'll try the switcheroo again in a few days, hoping that something > easier gets suggested; the box doing my routing/gatewaying is > headless, which makes this sort of thing hard. > > > what about duplexing? Is your nic set for half or full? > There may be another way but I usually nab a utility program from the manufacturer and run a diagnostic on the card. I've mostly worked with older 3Coms. The utility fits on a bootable windows floppy so it doesn't matter which operating system your running. hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
