"Travis Swift" wrote in message ...
At least Win98 doesn't hog all the memory and think
that all humans are brainless idiots; like a certain OS...
oh where was I;

For the Windows 98 pc to get an IP address for itself, it
needs to know the address of the DHCP server, in this
case, your router. Might be something like 192.168.0.1 you
should be able to find it out on your XP pc.

Then you'de want the Win98 pc to be able to resolve IP
addresses on the internet from site names, you could try
adding the router's IP address as a gateway.

You shouldn't blame the OS because you're to lazy to learn
how to do the stuff yourself ~_^

Thanks for your reply. I was under the impression that setting Win98
up to obtain an IP address automatically would make it send out DHCP
discovery requests which my router would respond to. Isn't that the
whole concept of DHCP? The router was already added as a gateway, but
thanks for the tip.

Regardless, assigning both computers a static IP still doesn't allow
the Win98 box to ping anybody but itself, so I've come to the
conclusion it might be a NIC problem.

I'm assuming your doodle is suppose to be the horizontal form of ;-),
so I'll let your quick estimation of my personality slide.

Bjorn