I have recently purchased a new Dell laptop and decided to network this to my old Dell PC using a crossover cable, i was told that this should be simple but i have encountered problems. Both are runing Windows XP SP2
After plugging the crossover cable into both computers they both said 'acquiring network address' and then i got 'limited or no connectivity... because the network did not assign a network address to the computer'
On checking the IP adresses i discovered the following:
The ethernet IP address on the desktop is in the format: 169.254.xx.xx
and the ethernet IP on the laptop is in the format 169.254.xxx.xxx
I think this is the main problem and the network may be more sucessful if the IPs were at least in the same format. Could someone please tell me how to change this or reccomend what i should do.
Is there anything else i need to configure to get the network working properly? Lots more properties of the network have null values:
Physical Address: 00-07-E9-CE-F1-FC
IP Address: 169.254.75.17
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway:
DNS Server:
WINS Server:
Do these need setting up, and if so, how do i do this??
Any help would be most appreciated.
Many thanks, LMoore
After plugging the crossover cable into both computers they both said 'acquiring network address' and then i got 'limited or no connectivity... because the network did not assign a network address to the computer'
On checking the IP adresses i discovered the following:
The ethernet IP address on the desktop is in the format: 169.254.xx.xx
and the ethernet IP on the laptop is in the format 169.254.xxx.xxx
I think this is the main problem and the network may be more sucessful if the IPs were at least in the same format. Could someone please tell me how to change this or reccomend what i should do.
Is there anything else i need to configure to get the network working properly? Lots more properties of the network have null values:
Physical Address: 00-07-E9-CE-F1-FC
IP Address: 169.254.75.17
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway:
DNS Server:
WINS Server:
Do these need setting up, and if so, how do i do this??
Any help would be most appreciated.
Many thanks, LMoore