Another daft PC question

[Darwinian]

This is driving me up the wall..

I know have the router working perfectly and my main PC in connected to it via the LAN/Ethernet port and it works perfectly.

The other PC that my daughter uses is connected to the router wirelessly but this isn't anywhere near as good a connection.

What I wanted to do was to connect her PC to the router directly using the ethernet/Lan cable as I have done with the main PC. After all, there is room on the Router for 4 PC's.

However, it doesn't work with her PC. In the Network connections window of my PC there is a LAN connection, but in hers there is nothing.

I've tried 'creating' a new connection but this doesn't work!!

Any ideas?

[Kyuuketsuki]

Questions:

In Device Manager is the network card configured/enabled (check in Network properties too).
Are you using configured network addresses or DHCP?

Testing an IP configureation:
1. from a command prompt on your daughter's PC type:

PING 127.0.0.1 ... if this works I would assume your network "stack" to be configured properly

2. from a command prompt on your daughter's PC type:

Type "IPCONFIG /ALL" ... if you gate an IP starting 169 back it means you have an auto-configuration address (it's not picking up a DHCP supplied address, presumably form your router).

3. if the IP addrtess is in line with what you expect, from a command prompt on your daughter's PC type:

PING IP Address.

If that responds OK and you can ping the gateway (that will also be on that IPCONGIG info) then in principle your networking should be working.

Kyu

[Darwinian]

Thanks for that.. I eventually managed to install the LAN Adapter from a CD and now all works smoothly