Feeling that network rage...

[ABT]

Taking a deep breath... I can't believe this. I previously posted about my invisible NIC, but now the situation has changed somewhat. I have tried everything short of reformatting my HD and starting fresh with Win98. I just did that Friday though, so I can't have very much on my system that is completely ruining my TCP/IP configuration. The basic problem is that I can only get one NIC in my system to work at a time. Both show up in Device Manager, as well as Network Settings, but only one of them works, always the one that was installed before the other. Using WinIPcfg shows only one NIC, always the one that was installed first, being either my Linksys or the Asix. None of my NICs are defective, as I have swapped all of them in and out of different systems. I can get either my cable modem working with one NIC, if configured for it in TCP/IP, or I can get the network to work with the same NIC, if so configured in TCP/IP. The main issue is that one NIC (the one first installed) works with either the cable modem or the network, but the second can not use TCP/IP. If I install the second NIC, it is able to use NetBEUI for File and Print Sharing, but not TCP/IP. Should I try to find a new TCP/IP stack somewhere? That might help, because it seems that TCP/IP is only allowing one NIC at a time to be supported, as shown by the fact that WinIPcfg only displays one NIC at a time. That covers about all of the options I can think of, if someone else can give me some advice that would be great. I really need to have this working. Thanks a lot for your time.

ABT.

 

[LongTimePCUser]

Are the 2 NICs identical models? I have seen some threads that indicate that you have to edit the inf file in that case so that they have different names. I am running Win98 SE with 2 NICs but they are different brands. No problems at all.

 

[ABT]

Different brand, different model. I don't know what is going on. The same thing happens when they are the same model and brand anyway.

ABT.

 

[obenton]

Could it be a PCI slot problem? NICs seem to like slots 2 and 3, and often don't work well in other slots. Is network NIC being assigned a static IP address in private range?

 

[jbaj007]

I had the opposite problem. Only had one nic and two kept showing up, even though I removed all traces of the one interloper. After two days of ignoring the PNP messages for the non-existant one it just went away; honest. Win98se

 

[ABT]

Well the problem has been remedied. Thanks for the assistance. I have a new question though. Why can't my workstation system connect through my server system to the net. Everything is configured properly as far as I know. Cable modem works on the server, and file and print sharing works between the server and workstation. I can ping each of them with no problem, but I can't ping my servers Cable Modem NIC. Hmm... Closed port? It won't let me connect through the proxy.

ABT.