I installed a DSL (At&T) modem and a router on my old win98se system and now when I am booting up, it gives me four error messages (demanding a reply) during the startup. It says that these files are called for in the registry or system.inii, and that they cannot be found. These are the four...

Somebody just gave me an OLD NEC Ready 440T laptop to use for some light word processing. The trouble is that it doesn't have a NIC card. Given the age of it, finding a PCMCIA Ethernet card, either wired or wireless that has compatible drivers for Windows 98 First Edition is difficult. Could...

Hi, I am trying to network four computers together in my home. I have a D-Link Router providing wireless for one of the computers (a laptop). In the four computers, there is two ones running Vista, one running XP (the laptop), and one running 98. So far the vista and xp computers can see each...

I recently installed Telus High Speed (DSL). Our secondary machine gets a working network connection on booting, every time, but within about 15 minutes it fails. This is a Compaq 7AP190, 2000 vintage, Win98SE, wired connection to ethernet port, single processor at 1GHz, 256 MBy RAM. Our...

I am using a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop which runs Windows 98 Second Edition. The last time I used this computer to connect to the Internet was some 2-3 months ago. Just last night I attempted to get on the Internet with it, but I was unable too. My network PCMCIA card works, but cant connect. I...

We're looking to finally get DSL on our home computer (98SE, PCI 2.1). I've done a lot of reading in this group about problems folks have had installing NICs on 98SE, so I was wondering if anyone had recommendations of NICs that install with minimal pain. We're not running a network at home. Just...

I do some work at a medium sized school where they have a peer to peer network. All machines are connected to a common router for DHCP. We have a mix of 98se, 2k and XP machines with three distinct workgroups: the computer lab (wkgpA), the school office (wkgpB) and the classrooms (wkgpC)....

In trying to configure everything in Network Neighborhood properties for a 98SE notebook computer, I am not able to add clients or services. When I select Client or Service in the Select Network Component Type dialogue and click on the Add button, nothing happens. I'm under the impression that...

I just installed windows 98 on a machine that had windows me. (used a new hard drive) I can't get on the internet, and the icon in device mgr. is yellow. It can't find the driver on the windows installation disk. It is a Compaq 10/100 pci card. I need to find a place where I can download the...

I disconnected my peer cable for some time and didn't use the network. Now Network Neighborhood tells me "Network not accessable." Did the system decided I didn't newed somiething any more and deleted it? Jim L via the eCS 1.15 version of OS/2 -- Would terrorists really spend time to become US...

Hey everyone.. I had setup a small (4) group of systems together to use our T1 line.. I had reset their workgroup name and the old name still shows in the network group. Is there a way to get it removed as it then shows the other group (20) of systems. Thanks.. Lou

I am having difficulty connecting to some (only) websites via my Linksys BEFW11S4. I have it hooked up to a Comcast Cable Modem and two machines, one Linux, one Win 98 SE and a Wireless Hookup to an XP system. All works fine. A few weeks ago (suddenly) I could no longer connect to BritishAirways...

I have found that I can transfer files from my laptop(XP) to my desktop(98) Both PC appear on the laptop network The desktop only shows the desktop on the desktop network. The desktop can access the internet through the laptop via Internet Explorer But accessing Outlook Express leads to a dialup...

I have a client with a network with 22 Windows 98SE computers. When they start up first, and you open "Network Neighbourhood", you can see all the pc's listed, and all the XP machines, and the "Entire Network" icon. If I refresh the view, or go into the "Entire Network" icon or one of the pc's,...

Im adding a Win98SE computer to my home network.When I go through the process of installing File/ Printer Sharing on the Win98SE box through the Add/Remove Windows programs/advanced/services, I get a popup that says that installation is denied due to access permissions. How do I get past that? Did...

My workgroup LAN connection keeps disappearing. I have a three node Win98 LAN. This is what is happening. With no reason, the workgroup=20 connections stop working. Each machine can no longer find=20 the other machines under My Computer Neighborhood. Each=20 machine, under Network Connections will...

When you install Win98se, you have to create a user name and password. This is used to log onto Windows. 1. How to I change the user name? 2. How do I change the password? There is also a computer name, share names, and password for networked shares, but those do not need to be changed.

Racked my brain for an hour over this one... my network is an NT network. We have one room that is a computer lab for students. The computer teacher has an XP computer with share folders for the students work to be saved on. (rather than saving it locally, which is a good idea). Problem with XP...

Please help me i really need your help. This my connection from my linksys router to our switch the name of the switch is nortel baystack 425-24T. We dont have any server here. My problem is there is somebody who download big files. And our internet connection will become slow. How could i know...

when I try to access my XP machine from within my win 98 puter I am now getting a request for network password which there is none. No problem in the reverse access it says Resources: \\TEDS-XP\IPC$ THEN PASSWORD BOX TO FILL IN my xp has me in the users group without a pw. what is the IPC and can...