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by kodiak1988

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On a peer to peer network using win2k and win98 machines winipcfg.exe is showing 169.254.x.x
subnet mask 255.255.0.0 as the address on one of my win98 machines. I have tried to release and renew the settings without success. I removed the adapter from the network neighborhood, had the machine detect the NIC, reloaded the NIC driver and solved nothing. I have a SMC firewall installed and it is configured to perform the DHCP function. Both the SMC router and the NIC on the machine in question show an active link. I know the subnet mask & IP are wrong but I'm unable to resolve the problem. HELP!

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by scottsman

try static ips and see if that works. if it does than you have a dhcp problem and I would look at your router. oh make sure the computer names are unique for each pc

by kodiak1988

I tried the static IPs with no success. I disabled the DHCP function on my router and tried to set up a proxy and again no success.

by mphoffar

The 169.254.X.X address is something thats belongs to the card and it's nothing that's being handed out on your network. If you're getting a link light and you're getting that address, then there's nothing wrong with the drivers of the NIC.

Try turning off your firewall, just to see if there's something there preventing an address to be handed out. Maybe you need to set a scope either via MAC or the 169 IPs to let the DHCP function to hand out the address. You might also want to see if setting half duplex 100base 10base would help this any.

I'd be safe to say the since you're getting a link and the Internal IP, then the drivers are installed correctly

Good luck to you

Mark

by kodiak1988

Thanks for your help - you saved me the aggravation of reloading the NIC driver or searching for an updated driver.

by diabetic

OK, I have just gone through this with my (webramp firewall/router)and here is the solution:

1. disconnect the computers from the router.
2. unplug the router and let it sit for several minutes with no power and with nothing connected.
3. turn off your computer.
4. after several minutes, restart the router/firewall.
5. plug in the data line to the SMC
6. restart your computer.

this should resolve the issue.

I even went so far was to take a perfectly good copy of Win98 off of my laptop and install Win2K.

At one point, I even went so far as to find an unused address in the range that my router was assigning (192.168.1.xxx) and manually assigned it to the machine. Ugly, but it worked.

(why do I have this fuyny feeling that you are hooked to a cable modem and that you used to be an @home customer)

by kodiak1988

You must have read my mind - yes I was a @home user and recently I was transitioned to Comcast's new network...I discovered an ongoing IRQ conflict. In the system settings my NIC continually displayed an IRQ that was different than the IRQ the system had assigned. I hunted around and located a installation CD for the motherboard and reloaded the IRQ port steering driver and the problem appears to have been solved. Thanks for your help.

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