On Monday 27 August 2001 01:29 am, Jerry McBride wrote:
> I hate to ask this here... but I don't know of a better source of
> information....
>
> I've got a clients win98 box that she wishes to place on a lan and share
> internet
> connections, with other users...
>
> Everyone else on the lan is setup perfectly. This one win98 box refuses to
> see anything outside of it's own box. That is, I can ping localhost and the
> host name and it
> works perfectly... ping into the rest of the lan and it times out... no
> connections. I've
> done EVERYTHING except change the version of OS. I really mean that too...
> I even
> ran a new ethernet cable... swapped her nic for known good nic, her nic
> worked in
> another box, the one swapped into her computer didn't... I even tried
> moving the
> connection on the switch box end... all manner of twiddle and tweak in the
> network
> setup, etc... ipconfig shows the nic setup as eth0, winicfg look like
> everything else
> I've ever ran it on... The led's on the nic indicate good connect at
> 100baset....
>
> I've done this type of setup a 1000 times before, but this one machine is
> dead to the
> net.
>
> Here's the kicker, Swap out her harddrive for one of mine and within a
> few moments I'm browsing the inet and local samba shares like heaven...
> WTF?
>
> Rotten windows 98 install?
>
> Pop her harddrive back into the machine, backup her most important data,
> make a
>
> bunch of notes about where and what is in here install and reinstall
> windows using
> her copy of 98... after sitting though all this shit... SAME EXACT
> symptoms! Physically
> move another computer into this ones space... no problems.
>
> Now, this leads to my question.... Was there ever an edition of win98 that
> had a brain
> dead tcpip stack on the cd? I think I've got one!
>
> The fix was to "illegally" use a co-worker's copy of 98se and... bingo...
> it's doing what
> she wanted!
>
> While I'm here... what is the last version of 98 called and does anyone
> here have a
> copy they'd like to sell or make a copy of?
The last version was Win98ME and I have a copy of it but I wouldn't sell it
to my worst enemy. And I wouldn't use it either. I replaced it with SE
after about 3 months use.
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