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by timehawk

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I wanted to connect my college laptop to my home computer so i can drag and drop my files into my home pc and burn them to a CD. Every laptop within the college is set up the same network wise and linking them via a crossover cable works instantly.

When I tried to connect my home pc to it, my laptop network card seems dead. I can ping 127.0.0.1 but there is no ip address at all without being connected to a connection at the college.

Laptop has Windows 98 and uses Novell Netware:
Combination of IPX/SPX and TCP/IP.

Home PC has Windows 98 SE and ethernet:
All TCP/IP.

Any help is appreciated.

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by radiic

On your laptop you need to assign it an IP address. Probably at school your ip is dished out to you. Or lap to lap both are using IPX/SPX and thats why they work with the crossover cable. When you take it home since your PC at home only has tcp/ip on it you cant see it.

On your laptop go to network properties go to the properties of your ethernet adapter and click on specify a network address. choose something like 192.168.171.1 with a sub of 255.255.255.0 also make sure file sharing is turned on. Then on your home pc go to its network properties and the adapter properties and click specify an address. make it 192.168.171.2 with the same subnet as above. Reboot both and you should be talking.

Rad

by timehawk

I forgot to turn on File Sharing when I tryed your solution. Will it affect whether they even talk to each other or not?

The network active light or whatever it is, does not flicker on my laptop (doesn't even come on). The laptop is the problem. It's like the network card isn't working, but it definately does because I'm on the college network daily. Any other solutions?? Is their a way to test the cross-over cable to see if it works properly?

Thanx again.

by john mac

Check My Computer|Properties|Devices|Network adapters on both machines to make sure both network cards are correctly installed.

From a DOS command line, or Start|Run run winipcfg to examine the Windows Network configuration for your network cards(not PPP which is for any modems you have installed).

I agree with the previous reply - use fixed IP addresses.

If this doesn't work, make sure you have drivers for the laptop network card before uninstalling and re-installing it.
Good luck.

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