Win98SE not playing nice

[daedalus80]

Just installed Win98SE again. Having trouble with my 3Com 905B-TX. I followed 3Com's recomendation of installing windows before installing the NIC, in order to prevent Windows from using it's crappy default drivers. Installed 3Com's most recent drivers without a problem. Windows sees the card fine.

But...

Can't talk to my router or anything outside the box. I can ping myself 127.0.0.1 fine. Running winipcfg shows an "IP Autoconfiguration Address" of 168.254.65.242.

The funniest part is I can fire up Knoppix or Damn Small Linux or Slackware and everything works fine. I've had Win98SE installed on this machine before with everything working. I think it's possessed.... Any tips would be appreciated.

[rlebeau]

Did you release and renew the IP Address? What is the Address on the other boxes? They have to have the same first 3 segments of the Dotted Quad.

i.e. 192.168.1.xxx and be on the same Subnet Mask i.e. 255.255.255.0

If your using a DHCP Router, all new Braodband routers have this, you will get a correct IP address from the Router when you release and renew the IP address.

Good luck

Rick