What am I doing wrong?

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drewv

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I am trying to get two of my computers to network together so that I can share files, but I am having problems with getting the LAN established.

Computer 1 is my laptop that I use regularly and is running XP Home Ed. w/ SP3. Computer 2 is an older desktop computer that I found recently and have been playing around with. It has an onboard LAN and is running Ubuntu 8.10 right now.

When I connect the ethernet cable, I get no response from either computer acknowledging that it has a cable connected. I switched out cables, made sure that the LAN was enabled in the BIOS for computer 2, turned off my firewalls, but I still can't get any LED's to light up on the connector. I decided to throw a Dynex DX-E102 PCI network card in today thinking that maybe the onboard LAN was dead, since I don't know the history of #2. But I am getting the same response, no LED's, nothing. I haven't been able to find any Linux drivers for the DX-E102 yet, so that could be part of the issue.

What I ultimately want to do is be able to boot #2 over the network so that I can run an ISO that is on my laptop. But so far whenever I initiate the PXE booting process from #2 it acts like there is no cable attached. Oh yeah, I'm trying to use the instructions from here http://blog.ryantadams.com/2008/02/...he-network-pxe-boot-with-tftp-and-windows-pe/ to accomplish this.

So what am I missing or doing wrong?

Thanks!
 
For one, you need to use a crossover cable not a standard cat5 cable. I don't think you are using the pxe boot the way it was meant to be used. You won't be able to boot the desktop off the laptop, your laptop is not a server.
 
the pxe boot is commonly used to boot to a RIS server of sorts. Johnb probably nailed it you need a crossover cable or a switch/hub if you plan doing more than 2 computers... make sure your computers IPs are valid the subnet masks match and that should work for ya.
 
LAN adapter's LED itself is OFF and so it is not the IP addressing problem. It is not the cables fault as you have tried with different cables. I thing one of you computer's LAN adapter requires a driver update.
 
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