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"Networking Woes"

Hi,

My Bro got back from Uni at the weekend and I though I would network his Laptop (running XP) and My PC (running ME). So, armed with a network cable (not a crossover but my bros laptop shouldauto dectect and change the way it send signals), I started the network wizard on his Laptop and finished that fine. Then, as instructed I inserted the XP disk and upgraded ME's networking support to XP's. After this the LAN on XP was active and sending and reciving packets of data, and both PC were shown on the network, fine and dandy. But, on the ME PC only the PC itself was shown on the network, and when the XP Laptop tried to access the ME PC it said it was not avalible.

Anyone know what the problem is? I've tried redoing the whole process but that hasn't worked. If its any help the network adapter on the PC is a built in Realtek RTL8139(A) Fast Ethernet Adapter on a GA-8SIMLH-P Motherboard and the Laptops Adapter is a Broadcom 440x 10/100 Intergrated controler.

Cheers
S.A.

I'm a plum I didn't notice you'd said you didn't have a cross over cable either, so yeah, that's why it isn't working :D

Wouldn't bother buying one off the net, you can pick a cheap one up which will suit your needs for less than a fiver, it doesn't need to be long, or shielded if you're sitting them so close together. Good luck :)

Result then :)

Keep us posted on the outcome.

The laptop and PC right next to each other, so 1m is fine.

Yep, that should do the trick, as long as 1m is ok :)

I've found a cable on Ebuyer which I think would work:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html? (SPACE) action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=16489

Is it OK?

No probs, always good to step in with a bit of networking help, seeing as I spend quite a bit of my time setting up networks :)

Jive wrote:
> How quickly do you need them? If you want to do this tomorrow then
> I'd say any local PC shop, if you can wait a while or for delivery
> then either here, ebuyer etc
>
> Or you could risk PC World [gasps in shock] :)

OK

Thanks very much for your help, and sorry for me being a bit dim, as I just finished my mocks [thank god :)].

How quickly do you need them? If you want to do this tomorrow then I'd say any local PC shop, if you can wait a while or for delivery then either here, ebuyer etc

Or you could risk PC World [gasps in shock] :)

Wheres the best place to by network cable from?

Forgot to say, if you have got a hub available, your going to need 2 straight through cables to get that to work.