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Fresh install of Win98SE, working NIC, LAN/WAN still down?!

Asked by StMute in Windows 95 - 98 Networking

Tags: nic, lan, router, win98se

Nothing worse than having LAN probs at home! And it's my daughters computer to boot. *sigh*

Her computer decided to crash horribly while she was online playing NeoPets. After working on it for a couple of hours (virus scan, reinstall TCP/IP, reinstall NIC, etc) to restore her LAN/WAN connection I gave in and opted for a full format/reinstall. The best I can get is to see her computer listed in Network Neighborhood on my computer but it's inaccessible. From her computer she cannot see the other two computers on the network but can see her own computer listed. Nothing (other than localhost) is pingable from her system.

Basic config info:
I'm using a Netgear RP114 router as the gateway.
My computer has a Netgear FA312 card (Win98SE also recently reinstalled).
Hers is using a LinkSys LNEPCI II (Win98SE).
The third computer is my wifes laptop (WinXP) but it's not really in play with this problem.

The router's ip address is 192.168.0.1 and is also the DHCP server.
I've got my computer set to gather the information automatically and it works fine. I set hers up the same way and it wasn't able to see the network. I entered 192.168.0.1 as the gateway, specified an ip address of 192.168.0.20 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and now as I said before, her computer is listed in my 'network neighborhood' but I can't access it (file sharing is enabled) or ping it.

Just to be sure that it wasn't some odd hardware glitch I swapped my card with hers with identical results. I tried two different PCI slots as well. I didn't really expect it to be a hardware problem but I wanted to be sure to exclude that possiblity. I also tested her network cable with a cable tester with no errors. I also tried different ports on the router.

What other information can I provide?

Thanks in advance!
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