Anyone knows how to set up networking on Windows 98SE?
At the moment it is connected by Realtek RTL8139 network card, with a static IP (192.168.1.4).
WinIpCfg shows the correct configuration (IP 192.168.1.4, Default Gateway 192.168.1.1). The router's address is 192.168.1.1.
On Welcome to Windows I selected "connect to internet via LAN", but IE still shows "can't find server".
Could you give me a suggestion?
Did you configure the DNS server?
Try opening up a command prompt and typing "ping www.google.com"
If it can't resolve the name, there's your problem.
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Yes. I tried to configure the DNS to my ADSL company DNS (the same DNS with my other computers on the same network), but it still can't connect.
So it doesn't resolve names?
What about setting the DNS server to your router's IP? Most routers do DNS forwarding.
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wrote:So it doesn't resolve names?
What about setting the DNS server to your router's IP? Most routers do DNS forwarding.
Perfect! Now I'm typing this message on the 98SE box after setting the DNS to the router.
Thank you for all of your suggestions 😀
I'm surprised that DHCP didn't work.
Hmmm, op doesn't say he even tried that. I wonder if he wanted a static IP for port-forwarding or firewall reasons? Maybe DHCP was to slow?
> W98SE . P3 1.4S . 512MB . Q.FX3K . SB Live! . 64GB SSD
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Actually DHCP works, but I prefer to say it as 'static IP' because I arranged my own DHCP table at the router, so this MAC address would connect with this IP address, and so on. But it's a weird thing that Win98 doesn't pull the DNS information (whereas NT4 and later do).
