nic problems

[RootExposure]

A friend of mine asked me to format his hard drive and reload win 98se for him ( he had tons of junk and just wanted to do a clean sweep). I reinstalled everything and everything is working.

He then asked me to put a nic card in there so he could connect to the internet through his cable modem. I installed the card and installed the drivers the way the directuibs saud tio but i attempted to connect to the internet it did not work. So I went through the connect to the internet wizard and set that up but it still didn't work. So i decided to look in the control panel obviously under networking. I noticed that the only adapter there was a dial-up adapter and tcp\ip connected to it in the network properties window. I looked in the device manager to see that it was working alright and it what there and working fine (according to the device manager). I figure I need to add an adapter and protocol for the nic card, but i am unsure what to use seeing as belkin isn't one of the companies listed.

The computer is an old PII gateway and the card is belkin pci card. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Chris

[bailey]

doing this off the top of my head.
right click on the nic in the device manager
click on prorerties and add you protocals there.

then go to new connection and select to connect to the internet through the lan.

[Jaggannath]

Yup, that's how I did mine Bailey

[RootExposure]

I went in to the device mananger and went into the properties. I don't see any places where you can add a protocol in the properties of the nic.

[Markoman01027]

If you have XP/2K, it is in Network and Dial up Properties. If you have Win 9X, then it is in control panel and then Networks.

Then hit properties for the connection you want to edit.

[bailey]

sorry
go to control panel and right click on network connections, right click on lan
then set your settings

[RootExposure]

I'm in Win 98se. There is no network connections in the control panel for win98se. There is internet options (which is where the lan settings button is but this only lets me configure stuff like configuration script and proxy server stuff) and network. I am trying to figure out what adapter to add to the network properties window for my Nic. At least I would imagine that is what I need to do, please correct me if I'm wrong. It is a belkin card.

Chris

[bailey]

ok if windows 98se did not detect you network adapter card.
in the control panel click on network
then click on the confiquration tab
look at the adapters that are listed,
if you see a incorrect adapter, then remove it by highlighting it and then click on the remove tab.
then click on the add button to add the new adapter card.
then select the networkadapters dialog box and click on have disk, when prompted insert the driver disk and press enter.

it then should find the correct drivers and install the adapter.

[Karnevil9]

Did you install the drivers and the PCI card in the order according to the instructions. Sometimes you install drivers first and then the device, and sometimes the other way around.
I have a belkin wireless PCI on windows 98SE and on that it was drivers first I believe. After that you can try going to device manager and click on the modem and disable it all hardware profiles, then go to the network card and enable it or clcik use this device. Make sure in properties it doesn't have any conflicts. The go back to Internet connections and select create new connection. I am doing this from memory so everything may not be exactly what you will see in windows. Anyway, I hope it helps a bit.

Just seen Bailey's advice and I forgot about that avenue, that should do it.