Jayce
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My brother's computer crashed. Blue screen of death. Safe mode, command mode, everything, gone. No idea what happened. Kudos to Microsoft! The whole **** thing was just unusable and unsalvagable. I don't have a copy of XP anymore and that's what he had on his system, so I dug out Windows 2000 SP4. I installed it no problems, blah blah... can't get it on the internet. It's using a PCI Linksys 10/100 card, and I have the driver for it on disc. Yet it won't work. It says successful install, yet it doesn't work.
In my opinion Windows 2000 is set up kind of stupid. I can't seem to find out how to create a new network location. All I keep finding is dial up connections.
When I ipconfig it in command prompt, I get a gateway, subnet, ip, etc. Looks fine to me. My tcp/ip stack is set to obtain IP automatically.
What to do now? It's acting like it's ignoring the driver. I'm a Linux guy, and can't stand MS for these reasons, so I have little patience when it comes to fixing issues like this when you'd think they should work fine.
Ideas?
In my opinion Windows 2000 is set up kind of stupid. I can't seem to find out how to create a new network location. All I keep finding is dial up connections.
When I ipconfig it in command prompt, I get a gateway, subnet, ip, etc. Looks fine to me. My tcp/ip stack is set to obtain IP automatically.
What to do now? It's acting like it's ignoring the driver. I'm a Linux guy, and can't stand MS for these reasons, so I have little patience when it comes to fixing issues like this when you'd think they should work fine.
Ideas?