Here is my situation. I have 2 computers right now. The one I'm ussually at is the one Im sitting at right now and Im connected to @home or comcast or whatever it's called now and everything works fine. I have my computer name and "@home" workgroup entered in the network id thing and all is well. So a few weeks ago i put together a computer from some parts i had laying around the house. Its a 900mhz tbird, Asus motherboard, ect. Its only about a year old. So anyway, I want to put both computers on cable, but I dont have the funds to buy a router right now. So I figured I'd use the other computer to do ICS. So I installed 2k and put in a network card. Entered my computer name and workgroup and plugged a network cable directly into the modem....nothing. I go into ipconfig and see nothing. I then look again it is has assigned some random IP address and it isnt connecting to the net. So I try putting in "@comast.net", "@comcast", "comcast.net", "comcast" as different workgroups and still nothing. So I plugged my other computer back in and I had no trouble, so I knew that cable was working. So I fired up ipconfig on this computer and manually entered the settings that I saw there into my win2k box...still nothing. So I upgraded the entire system to XP, thinking that 2k was misbehaving or whatever, and that still didnt do it. I retried everything I mentioned before and nothing seems to work. I have tried both a dlink and a linksys network cards but with no luck. Any suggestions? I've asked before, but I've tried everything people suggested. Please help.
thanks.
-doug
thanks.
-doug