Esteemed Linux'ers,
I installed linux on my Pentium 90 Mhz box along with a brand-new
RTL8139 NIC 10/100 Mbps, and connected the NIC to a brand-new NewMedia
Livewire Hub with Cat5 wire. I also purchased 2-additional RTL8139 NIC's
and installed them in my NEC Pentium 200 MMX computer running Win98 SE2, and
my Compaq 1Ghz computer running Windows 2000.
Not knowing at all what I was doing during the linux installation, I
loaded it, guessing at all this new terminology. I had three glowing link
lights on my hub! I was actually able to telnet from my Windows 2000 box
into the linux box! (Yay!)
After reading posts on Linux-newbie, I changed some settings here, some
there, now I only have a link light for my linux box. The link lights for
the Win boxes light up during boot-up, then midway during the boot process
they go blank.
I don't have any idea what I did to cause this, but I *did* do
something, as I tweaked both machines quite a bit after the first install.
I have tweaked myself into some unknown tweak area and don't know how to get
out! Any ideas, plleaaasee?
Dave
