Renoir,

I have never worked with a machine with two network cards, but if you are connecting the two machines directly (without a hub) you probably need to use a crossover cable. A regular network cable has the wires exactly the same at both ends. A hub will handle the crossing. Check out:

http://www.alliedtelesyn.com/faq_gud1.htm

for information on which pins are actually used.

You can probably pick up a crossover cable at a local computer store or order one on line.


>I'm trying to connect a laptop using a 10/100 3Com PCM/CIA card to a 10/100 3Com card in my desktop PC. I have two cards in the desktop - the first card is used to access an ADSL line and the second was supposed to give the laptop access to the desktop. I never been comfortable (nor successful) in trying to do anything related to network settings, configurations, protocals and all the other stuff that I desperately need right now. All three cards check out fine in the device manager and I've gotten both machines to at least show themselves (and appropriate shared drive) in the network neighborhood, but I just can't seem to get them to see each other. I even went out and purchased a developer's Windows 98 book and all it did was encourage me to pay to have this done. Can anyone give me a hand or some references that could help? I really didn't think this would be that difficult...
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>Thanks! Renoir