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Got it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It now works !!!!!!!!!!! We deleted all the network adaptors from the hardware device manager rebooted PC Took out the new network card Rebooted Put the new Network card in Rebooted PC started and could see the network and...

Couldn't physically find another network card so disabled the dial up adapter from the Device Manager but this only gave us an IP error message, so enabled it again. After some fiddling ipconfig still shows 2 ethernet adapters but both with zeros as IP address etc this time. :-(

Many thanks for your rapid response. We will try it and let you know how we get on!!

Tried assigning a static ip address, still didnt work :-( Here is the ipconfig info from the Windows 98 pc. c:/windows>ipconfig Windows 98 IP configuration 0 Ethernet adapter : IP Address.......... : 192.168.1.4 Subnet Mask....... : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway...: 192.168.1.1...

We did what you suggested but unfortunately this didn't work. When we try to ping the router it just comes back with 'timed out'. It is frustrating as we have a signal strength of 94% from the router but seem to be blocked from connecting the internet. Do you have any other suggestions?

Can anyone please help? We are trying to add a third pc to our wireless network (we are not sure how we managed to add the second pc :-/). We have our main pc running XP wired to an ADSL wireless 11g firewall router (3com) and a laptop connected via a wireless adapter. We would now like to...