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Network Cable is Unplugged
I have a Windows XP machine with two network cards installed. One network card goes into the cable modem the other network card is running out to my laptop which is a ibm thinkpad with a 3com pcmcia card installed via cross over cable. I have installed the latest drivers for both network cards, bought a crossover cable, checked the pinning of it, decided to make my own cable, made it and tried it but still the same problem. I have no link lights from either network card on the desktop or the laptop. I have tried turning off auto-nego. on both cards and tried them at all levels (10-half 10-full. etc without any luck. I have completely removed both cards in safe moved on both machines and reinstalled. I have also set the tcp ip on the desktop card to the ip of 192.168.0.1 and the laptop to 192.168.0.2 and both ping localhost. I plugged the cable modem in the second network card on the desktop and it worked, and it also worked on the laptop. PLEASE HELP!
Dumb question, Have you tested both network cards on connections to the cable modem that you know is good? Had to replace a network card in a system the other day for something similar.
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I'm curious about where we are on this one...is it a crossover cable? Or are we looking for another answer?
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If you really want to get fancy, get a 4 port broadband router. Plug the cable modem into the wan port of the router, and plug the other two computers into the router as well. That's it, setup IP addressing and you're done.