Network Set-up (W98)

[powle]

I just added a linksys wireless-G router to my desktop computer. Tried to connect my daughters new wireless laptop. The laptop sees to network and gets a strong signal but can't connect to the internet. Any ideas?? Also on my desktop when I look at the Network icon all it has in it is one icon that says Entire network, shouldn't there be more showing both computers.

[homeflash]

did you check the DNS and make sure it is DHCP? or just assigned the internal ip according to your router.

I bet you can ping from the laptop. Mostly like it is that your DNS is not set up correctly. You may want to look at there. Maybe you want to do ipconfig/all on both machines and compare and see if there is any difference. Post it back and we will help...

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[marklee]

Your desktop computer or Laptop is W98? If so, the machine_Name_salved should be NetBEUI instead of DNS. If you have no W2000 or XP, it is not able support DHCP. no any private IP enable.
Whenever you creat a workgroup, you can see both PCs under Entire network, but cannot connect to Internet since there is no IP address in Laptop.

[SteelRat70]

You need a few things here. Firstly, ensure that both your machines have IP addresses on the same subnet; for example one with an ip of 10.0.0.1 and the other with 10.0.0.2 and also that the router itself is on this network as well - 10.0.0.250 all with subnet mask of 255.255.255.0

Once this is setup, ensure that you can ping the router from one of the two workstations. This should then give you network connectivity between the two workstations. Once this is ok, set the gateway address on both workstations to the ip address of the router (in this example, 10.0.0.250) Then you need to know the IP address of your ISPs DNS servers and enter those (usually two) in the DNS tab of your IP properties. That then should work!