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Help sharing connection with win 98 to XP machine

  • 10-03-2005 10:57pm
    #1
    kegan5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭


    The Laptop is running xp and the Computer is running Win 98, the laptop is connected to the usb modem, I have a cross over cable between the pc and laptop network cards, I have run the network setup wizard on both of the machines but still I can't get the pc to connect to the Internet through the laptop.

    Anyone have any experience with internet connection sharing

    Thanks
    Kate


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  • #2
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    kegan5 wrote:
    The Laptop is running xp and the Computer is running Win 98, the laptop is connected to the usb modem, I have a cross over cable between the pc and laptop network cards, I have run the network setup wizard on both of the machines but still I can't get the pc to connect to the Internet through the laptop.

    Anyone have any experience with internet connection sharing

    Thanks
    Kate

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    - Sully


  • #3
    Gosh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 684 ✭✭✭Gosh


    This should help you

    http://compnetworking.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.annoyances.org%2Fwin98%2Ffeatures%2Fics.html

    You need to have Windows 98SE for ICS to work on the computer


  • #4
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    You don't need 98SE for an ICS client - it's just 98SE was the first Windows OS to support ICS *serving*. I got my Win2k system sharing its internet connection with a P75 running Windows 95!! :D

    I don't know if it's possible to do ICS with the modem connected by USB - the most common way (and probably easier - it's what I did) is to use 2 network cards on the ICS server (one in, one out), but I don't know how that would be possible on a laptop - PCMCIA network card, maybe?

    Does the USB connection to the modem act like a network - i.e. does it come up as a network in the taskbar, and does it give the PC and modem their own IP addresses? If not, I don't think ICS will be possible.


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