Argh!

I have a NTL cable modem that I now need to share with my flatmate.
I'm running WinXP on a relatively new computer, she's running Win98
(original) on an archaic one (100 Mhz Pentium, 48 MB RAM, 1.2 Gig
Harddrive).

Bought a Mentor 4 LAN + 1 WAN router (no product code, but the full
specs are described at
http://www.dacomputers.com/products/...hp?code=KNRMCL) today
and hooked it up to the cable modem. My computer gets an IP from the
builtin DHCP server in the router; things are dandy on this end.

Her computer does not get _anything_; keeps assigning itself 169.*.
The cable going to her computer works fine when plugged into mine, so
the cable & ports are good.

She can ping 127.0.0.1, so I'm assuming this is an indicator of a
working network card (?), but naturally cannot ping anything in the
192.* range where I live.

computer mysticism
I've tried reinstalling her network drivers (TCP/IP, NE2000 compatible
NIC) to see if anything "fishy" existed with the old install, but to
no avail.
/computer mysticism

I'm lost. I don't even know what to do. The cables work, the router
works, the DHCP server works, her NIC works, but I'll be damned if I
can get her a valid IP address from the router.

Any hints to what I can do to massage Win98? Links to hacks, MS KB
articles, your computer mysticism would be appreciated as would advice
from the experts.

Hoping you're smarter than I am.
Bjorn