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ricbrooks2 · 11-01-2005, 11:30 AM

I have searched on the forums but still I am having trouble with this one. Even bought a book on it but it's not helping. I have a dell XP machine I'm trying to connect to a Gateway win 98 machine. When I run the setup wizard on the XP machine everything seems to go okay and I create the set up disk. When I put the set up disk in the 98 machine it downloads the files and then restarts and then comes up with the message network setup wizard can't find your network hardware. I have both machines connected to a router and they both can access the internet through it. When I open up network neighborhood on each machine they show the other machine with the comp's name. When I try to open the Xp machine from the 98 machine it keeps asking for a password but I have no idea what it could be because I never set one up. They can ping each other and the firewalls are disabled; I have no idea how to get this to work. I can't open the 98 from the XP either I enabled file and print sharing so what gives?

11-01-2005, 11:30 AM	#1
ricbrooks2 Member (7 bit) Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 78	Network wizard can't find network hardware I have searched on the forums but still I am having trouble with this one. Even bought a book on it but it's not helping. I have a dell XP machine I'm trying to connect to a Gateway win 98 machine. When I run the setup wizard on the XP machine everything seems to go okay and I create the set up disk. When I put the set up disk in the 98 machine it downloads the files and then restarts and then comes up with the message network setup wizard can't find your network hardware. I have both machines connected to a router and they both can access the internet through it. When I open up network neighborhood on each machine they show the other machine with the comp's name. When I try to open the Xp machine from the 98 machine it keeps asking for a password but I have no idea what it could be because I never set one up. They can ping each other and the firewalls are disabled; I have no idea how to get this to work. I can't open the 98 from the XP either I enabled file and print sharing so what gives?