2 Nic Card on 1 motherboard

[kgb]

I run a LAN (peer to peer w/ 3 win95c computers, there's no hub and i used coax cable with terminator to connect.

Recently i connected my main w/station to the internet with ADSL
requiring an D-Link PCI Nic card. This card works fine.
The problem is my LAN NE2000 compatible ISA Nic card that wouldn't
work. My M/brd have 3 isa slot and 5 pci. They are all filled.
(sound card, graphic card etc) I've tried to disable the LPt1 port in
Bios to make is irq7 off in order to make free for my Ne2000,
i dont use the printer. That wouldn't do. In device manager, it
show no conflict for the Ne2000 but I am unable to access my LAN.
I even disable Lpt1 in the hardware profile in Device Mgr...
still it my Ne2000 wouldn't go for it.
I try re-installing the driver over and over in windows and in dos,
no luck. I am positive that card is physically ok since it worked
beautifully before I install my Internet Nic Card. I'm out of ideas
and getting desperate. My question is ....if you free an irq in bios
why wouldnt accept the new setting? I really would like to know if
its possible what is I am trying to do. Any suggestion please poste
it here or email it to me at do_g@hotmail.com
Thank for your time.
George

[Farmer]

kgb:

Don't overlook the possibility of IO address conflict. In device manager, click on COMPUTER and check that the IO address you have assigned to your nic is listed and not overlapping another item. Also, since your nic is ISA, it may not be plug & PRAY, so you will have to run the DOS, in my case EASYSET.EXE, program to set the IRQ, IO address etc. Those two items are usually the only ones I need to change.

Good luck!!

Tom

[pray59]

Do you have gateway software installed? I have 2 NIC's in my sys...1 for my LAN and 1 for my cable modem.
When I hooked up my cable modem, it took down my LAN. I thought it was an IRQ problem but it turned out to be the cable modem.
I had to install Sygate to share my cable modem on the LAN and the network then started working.
http://www.sygate.com/ http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[pray59]

By the way...Here is the exact procedure I used: Just use ASDL in place of Cable;

>Download SyGate Proxy Server at:
> http://www.sygate.com/download.html
>It's good for 75 MBs before you have to buy it.
>And SyGate is the easiest to setup that I've seen yet,
>and I tried 'em all. (It seems, anyway...)
>
>The following is assuming that you have 2 network cards, your cable
>modem is working properly, and the 2nd network card, the one
>that's **not** connected to the Cable Modem, the card that you have
>connected to your internal network, is setup like the following:
>
>IP Address: 192.168.0.1
>Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
>Gateway: Nothing
>DNS Configuration: Don't change anything
>
>The card that's connected to you cable modem, leave those settings as they
>are.
>
>For the setup on the PC **NOT** connected to the Cable Modem Setup as
>follows:
>
>IP Address: 192.168.0.2
>Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
>Gateway: 192.168.0.1
>
>DNS Configuration:
> Host: Doesn't Really Matter anything you want
> Domain: Doesn't Really Matter (I left mine blank)
> DNS Server Search Order: 192.168.0.1
>
>And that's it... Everything should work the same way as it does on the
>computer connected to the Cable Modem.
>
>SyGate only has to run on the computer that is connected to your
>cable modem. (The one with two network cards.) All this is assuming that
you
>have the proper drivers loaded for the cards and that they are
>functioning properly. ( I know, I said that already...)
>
>If you have more PC's to connect, do the same as for the second PC,
>but add the next value for it's IP address. (i.e. 192.168.0.3) and so on...

Good luck, Bob