help wired networking

[White Van Man]

bought a pci networking (REALTTEK 10/100M) so i could communicate with laptop and ps2.Xp installed driver for it windows can see it says operating ok
the light on back of card is off and when i try to do a ping test 192.168.1.111 i get host unreachable and when i go in ipconfig in dos says media disconnected.How can i get this to work?anybody got any ideas?

 

[Dutcho]

What sort of cable you using ?

 

[White Van Man]

not sure i am told it should be a crossover cable i got this cable with my ps2 network adaptor on the cable it says cat.5e patch cable utp when i look at both ends of the cable the wires are identical in colour and order

 

[Dutcho]

Should have cross over on it

 

[Devilfish]

The transmit and receive wires should be crossed...if it's a crossover cable...two wires should be swapped at one end!

 

[White Van Man]

cheers for that m8 i will have to go and get one tomoz now.even if i have not got the correct cable should my computer be able to communicate with net work card?is their a way to test it without being connected to other sources?
i am asking these questions because on my laptop has a builtin one yet this seems to be on and connected even thou data is not being sent to anything yet the one i'm having trouble with has no connection

 

[White Van Man]

do you know which is transmite and receive,are they the two outer (furthest left and furthest right)wires just change at one end of plug

 

[Devilfish]

Sorry but I'm not getting your problem...

Do you have a wireless card on the laptop or has it got built-in WiFi?

Do you have a wireless router or does your motherboard on the PC have WiFi built in.

Do you have a PC connected to the internet and you want to use the laptop to surf the web aswell?

Sorry if I'm thick!

 

[Devilfish]

do you know which is transmite and receive,are they the two outer (furthest left and furthest right)wires just change at one end of plug

Have a look here...

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-ethernet-crossover.asp

 

[White Van Man]

no i dont have anything wireless on laptop or other computer i am on stand alone broadband witch is connected to my usb port on laptop.i would like to conect this laptop(my laptop has built in ethernet port) to my other computer through a network card(realtex pci) for transfering files to and throu(this computer will not be surfing the net)also i want my laptop to connect to ps2(crossover cable needed which i going to make thanks to for link) i know i will have problems with other computer but i will make up crossover cable first then get back to you.
Thanks for the quick reply lads

 

[Insane_Jesus]

do you know which is transmite and receive,are they the two outer (furthest left and furthest right)wires just change at one end of plug

In a crossover cable pin 1 becomes pin 3 at the other end and pin 2 becomes pin 6. The rest remain the same

 

[White Van Man]

Thanks every body i have made my crossover network now and seems to be working both computer seem to be connected.I have set another post now on how to see other computes files ie:harddrive desktop.
Thanks again

 

[totalgenius]

Hello

First of all the easiest thing to do would be to buy a wired router as you can buy a decent DLINK or NETGEAR one for as little as 15 pounds.

Cheers