[Wired] Need Troubleshooting Help with Ancient Legacy Linksys NI

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Ghetto_Child join:2004-05-30 Montreal, QC 1 edit	[Wired] Need Troubleshooting Help with Ancient Legacy Linksys NI Don't know if this belongs in the Linksys forum or the Computer Hardware Help forum or the Microsoft Help forum or even the "No, I Will Not Fix Your #@$!! Computer " forum. So I'm trying to set up some ancient legacy hardware to browse the internet. Anyway it's a Win98SE machine and this Linksys Ether16 ISA card; I have 3 of them not all installed at the same time, has thin coax/BNC and RJ-45. So I used the dos utility to program the right I/O address and IRQ number. There's no conflicts with what I've set 300Hex and IRQ 9. I tried reserving the IRQ for ISA in the BIOS and I tried not reserving it. I have 3 different drivers available for the card. A Linksys published one from 1997 a Microsoft published one from 1999 and a Plug-n-Play version, all say Ether16. Windows isn't automatically detecting the card and when I manually add the card windows says the device is fine still the card can't find the DHCP from the router. It won't take an auto IP. Even when I manually set the IP, DNS, and gateway it can't find any routers or internet. Ping can't find anything other than its own IP. The dos utitlty for the card pass all diagnostics as long as the device is not added in windows. Once I add it to windows the dos utility says the card is working good but it can't make a connection on the cable and it can't perform a loopback instruction. I have 3 of this card and each one has the exact same result. I have a PCI nic in this system that works just fine, browses the internet etc and gets an auto ip fine too. I tested both cards using the same ethernet cable. I'm trying to figure out if it's a driver issue or if maybe this card can't use TCP/IP? Or if maybe my network stack in Win98SE is corrupted. I can't reinstall the Win98SE right now because I have data on there I don't want to lose yet and these hard drives are small ones I was using as a test install so no space to dual boot anything. The system is an Asus P/I-P55T2P4S AMD k6-2 400MHz and 192MB of EDO ram. Yeah I know ancient but humour me I'm using this to practice some old stuff.
Ghetto_Child join:2004-05-30 Montreal, QC 1 edit	to forum · permalink · · 2008-12-19 19:46:51 ·
JoseEmanez202 @optonline.net	Re: [Wired] Need Troubleshooting Help with Ancient Legacy Linksy said by Ghetto_Child : Don't know if this belongs in the Linksys forum or the Computer Hardware Help forum or the Microsoft Help forum or even the "No, I Will Not Fix Your #@$!! Computer " forum. So I'm trying to set up some ancient legacy hardware to browse the internet. Anyway it's a Win98SE machine and this Linksys Ether16 ISA card; I have 3 of them not all installed at the same time, has thin coax/BNC and RJ-45. So I used the dos utility to program the right I/O address and IRQ number. There's no conflicts with what I've set 300Hex and IRQ 9. I tried reserving the IRQ for ISA in the BIOS and I tried not reserving it. I have 3 different drivers available for the card. A Linksys published one from 1997 a Microsoft published one from 1999 and a Plug-n-Play version, all say Ether16. Windows isn't automatically detecting the card and when I manually add the card windows says the device is fine still the card can't find the DHCP from the router. It won't take an auto IP. Even when I manually set the IP, DNS, and gateway it can't find any routers or internet. Ping can't find anything other than its own IP. The dos utitlty for the card pass all diagnostics as long as the device is not added in windows. Once I add it to windows the dos utility says the card is working good but it can't make a connection on the cable and it can't perform a loopback instruction. I have 3 of this card and each one has the exact same result. I have a PCI nic in this system that works just fine, browses the internet etc and gets an auto ip fine too. I tested both cards using the same ethernet cable. I'm trying to figure out if it's a driver issue or if maybe this card can't use TCP/IP? Or if maybe my network stack in Win98SE is corrupted. I can't reinstall the Win98SE right now because I have data on there I don't want to lose yet and these hard drives are small ones I was using as a test install so no space to dual boot anything. The system is an Asus P/I-P55T2P4S AMD k6-2 400MHz and 192MB of EDO ram. Yeah I know ancient but humour me I'm using this to practice some old stuff. Sounds like plug & pray is not working here. Things to try: 1 - When configuring the ISA card in DOS (Not a DOS prompt within Win98SE), if the card has an enable/disable PnP mode function, disable PnP. 2 - Leave the I/O address to 300, and change the IRQ to 10 (remember to reserve this IRQ in the system BIOS setup). 3 - If the card is memory mapped, find a free block of memory which the card will pass diags in DOS. Be sure to reserve this memory block address in your system BIOS setup. 4 - Write all this carp down (I/O address, IRQ assignemnet, Memory address block assignment) after the card passes diags. 5 - Load Win98SE and forget about plug & Pray for the card. Set the card up with manual settings to what you wrote down in step 4. If something else is steping on the cards manual settings in Win98SE, move it by manual config'g it. 6 - Once the card draws a dynamic IP via DHCP or a fixed IP, go the the DOS prompt and PING its IP. If you can PING its IP, loopback is fine and so is the TCPIP stack in Win98SE. 7 - If not, go back into manual config of the NIC in Win98SE and set the link speed from AUTO to fixed 10 or 100Mbps. You may have an NWAY auto-negotiation problem. Many 16-bit ISA based NICs of the early days of networking had this type of problem. Good Luck!
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