I am having problems getting my friends 4 port SMC7004BR working with his computer and cable modem.
I am pretty sure it isn't the router, but figured I might as well see what some other people think. The power light is on, the self test blinks like it should. The light on port 1 is on which is the one the nic is plugged into. The WAN port is connected to the cable modem properly.
I followed the instructions that came with the SMC router (which worked fine when I followed them with mine although they were a little confusing) Everything seemed to work fine. I got everything plugged in and the router turned on. I set the TCP/IP that is bound to the NIC to server assigned for IP addy and DNS with no gateways. This computer is Win98 first edition BTW, although my friend duel boots with Win2k. We decided to do Win98 first since he primarily uses 2k so that if we did something wrong it wouldn't be a big deal.
I rebooted and the next step listed is to release/renew the NIC through winipcfg. This may be related to the problem, as when I tried to do that it came back got an error 23 or 32 (I know better - should have written it down ). This happens whenever I tried to release or renew the NIC.
I tried to continue on. Next step was to go to admin page. Punched in the IP for the admin page and all I got was a nice "Page can not be displayed". So it seems like the problem is somewhere in the connection between the NIC and the router. He has no proxies but does have Zonealarm. It has that same error with Zone Alarm on and with it disabled.
The NIC is a cheapy $10 - $20 NIC that the cable company installed when they installed his cable service. It is listed as being a Winbond 10/100 NIC(with a really long @ss model #).
So, I reloaded the NIC drivers and now we can't even boot into Win98 without going to safemode. He keeps getting fatal exception OE's occuring in PPPmac.vxd. Damn NIC...
Soooo, if you made it this far reading thanks. My guess is that his crappy NIC is the problem since it seems rather flaky. Any suggestions welcome.
I am pretty sure it isn't the router, but figured I might as well see what some other people think. The power light is on, the self test blinks like it should. The light on port 1 is on which is the one the nic is plugged into. The WAN port is connected to the cable modem properly.
I followed the instructions that came with the SMC router (which worked fine when I followed them with mine although they were a little confusing) Everything seemed to work fine. I got everything plugged in and the router turned on. I set the TCP/IP that is bound to the NIC to server assigned for IP addy and DNS with no gateways. This computer is Win98 first edition BTW, although my friend duel boots with Win2k. We decided to do Win98 first since he primarily uses 2k so that if we did something wrong it wouldn't be a big deal.
I rebooted and the next step listed is to release/renew the NIC through winipcfg. This may be related to the problem, as when I tried to do that it came back got an error 23 or 32 (I know better - should have written it down ). This happens whenever I tried to release or renew the NIC.
I tried to continue on. Next step was to go to admin page. Punched in the IP for the admin page and all I got was a nice "Page can not be displayed". So it seems like the problem is somewhere in the connection between the NIC and the router. He has no proxies but does have Zonealarm. It has that same error with Zone Alarm on and with it disabled.
The NIC is a cheapy $10 - $20 NIC that the cable company installed when they installed his cable service. It is listed as being a Winbond 10/100 NIC(with a really long @ss model #).
So, I reloaded the NIC drivers and now we can't even boot into Win98 without going to safemode. He keeps getting fatal exception OE's occuring in PPPmac.vxd. Damn NIC...
Soooo, if you made it this far reading thanks. My guess is that his crappy NIC is the problem since it seems rather flaky. Any suggestions welcome.