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    Has anyone gotten this to work? I keep getting a message that the NDIS driver can't load the sharing. The driver for the NIC - AOpen AL320TX, is the latest version. Looking for any insight into this issue. TIA
    Ron

    Forget it, I just answered my own question. It was something basic, I forgot to load a second protocol, TC/IP gets disabled for the local network when you are using it for the internet. As soon as I enabled netbui things were fine.
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    Ron. BH6 etc.


    [This message has been edited by Ron (edited 09-13-1999).]
    Office: Giga266A, XP1900+, 1GB PC2100. 80GB Maxtor, Matrox G550 Integraph 21", Sceptre 19"
    Home:#1.Abit IS7, 512MB OCZ DDR 533, P4C2600 at 3260, LiteOn 411S DVDRW, LiteOn 481248 CDRW,WD 80G ATA100, Audigy, 2X IBM P202, Radeon 9600 Pro as well.
    #2. TB 1.33G/KR7AR133/512MB PC2100. MSI GF4-4200TI, Maxtor 13.6/40G drives/Ricoh 121032 CDRW, Hitachi 8X DVD, AOpen 52X. etc.
    #3. P3-700-512MB/BX6R2/GF2MX400/
    etc. #4,#5 Various P2 with G400, G200.

  • #2
    I only have TCP/IP on my systems at home and the ICS works a treat - no problems at all with it.

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    Cheers,
    Steve

    PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

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    • #3
      I think I spoke too soon, there are still some anomalies. Maybe I'd better go back to the SMC card while I try and work things out with the AOPen ALN320TX, I suspect the drivers are a little dodgy as yet.

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      BH6-LN, 128MB PC100, C300A@450, Pan DVDwHollywood+,Pan 4X SCSI CDR, WangDAT, Quantam UDMA HDs, Fireport 40 UW, SBLive!Value (attached to bi-amped TEAC/Hitachi multimedia system), AL320TX NIC, etc. G200 Mystique as well.

      Office: Giga266A, XP1900+, 1GB PC2100. 80GB Maxtor, Matrox G550 Integraph 21", Sceptre 19"
      Home:#1.Abit IS7, 512MB OCZ DDR 533, P4C2600 at 3260, LiteOn 411S DVDRW, LiteOn 481248 CDRW,WD 80G ATA100, Audigy, 2X IBM P202, Radeon 9600 Pro as well.
      #2. TB 1.33G/KR7AR133/512MB PC2100. MSI GF4-4200TI, Maxtor 13.6/40G drives/Ricoh 121032 CDRW, Hitachi 8X DVD, AOpen 52X. etc.
      #3. P3-700-512MB/BX6R2/GF2MX400/
      etc. #4,#5 Various P2 with G400, G200.

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      • #4
        ICS almost works ...
        Under its own rules, whatever they are >-(

        Under W98SE my machine now always autologs into the family network (ie never asks who I am on a reboot) and hence doesn't know my dialup password. I always have to log off as (me) then logon on as (me)(though no network password is required) and suddenly it now has my dialup password, but no auto connect.
        I then click auto connect and afterwards remote machine(s) on the family network can connect to the internet with no problems... except they don't/can't disconnect my modem when it's finished.

        The reason I went for W98SE rather than Wingate, I had Wingate...
        (I had to ditch Wingate 3.0, everytime my wife dialled up her ISP on her phone line, Wingate would dial up my ISP on my phoneline, yet we never put Wingate on her machine)

        Dave
        Don't make me angry...

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        • #5
          I installed ICS without any problems. Just follow the instructions in the help screens.

          The one drawback to it is one that is commom to all sharing programs. If you are using it on a home network and your e-mail is with an ISP and not a portal, only the primary computer can access e-mail. The other computers on the network can only access the net, not e-mail, while the primary computer is logged in. I've got four e-mail accounts with AOL and only one of us can read their mail at a time.

          Another problem I ran into was that only a Win 98 SE machine can be set up as the primary. If you try installing ICS on a Win 95 machine, it tries to install all of Win 98 SE. My old Win 95 machine doesn't have room for 98, so I was unable to set up the old machine as primary.

          RAB
          AMD K6III-450; Epox EP-MVP3G5; G400DH32; Maxtor 10gig UDMA66; 128meg PC100; Aureal SQ2500 sound; PCI Modem Blaster; Linksys 10/100 NIC; Mag 800V 19"; AL ACS54 4 speaker sound; Logitech wireless mouse; Logitech Wingman Extreme (great for lefties)

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          • #6
            Rab
            I wish it was that simple. The problems I had were compounded by a BH6 mobo which just rolled over and died on me. I've replaced it with BX6r2 which is working great but nonetheless I did have to replace my AL320N nic because its drivers do not get along with ICS. I dropped in an old SMC nic with the intel chip, it works fine.
            Office: Giga266A, XP1900+, 1GB PC2100. 80GB Maxtor, Matrox G550 Integraph 21", Sceptre 19"
            Home:#1.Abit IS7, 512MB OCZ DDR 533, P4C2600 at 3260, LiteOn 411S DVDRW, LiteOn 481248 CDRW,WD 80G ATA100, Audigy, 2X IBM P202, Radeon 9600 Pro as well.
            #2. TB 1.33G/KR7AR133/512MB PC2100. MSI GF4-4200TI, Maxtor 13.6/40G drives/Ricoh 121032 CDRW, Hitachi 8X DVD, AOpen 52X. etc.
            #3. P3-700-512MB/BX6R2/GF2MX400/
            etc. #4,#5 Various P2 with G400, G200.

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            • #7
              Ron,
              Good luck. I'm sorry I made it sound so easy. I actually had problems getting my NIC working. I found it only works in the PCI slot right next to the AGP slot. SS7 busmastering limits, I guess. Too bad, since I wanted to leave this slot cover off to help cool the G200.

              I went ahead and installed SPX/IPX, TCP/IP and Netbeui(sp?) so that I wouldn't have to worry about which protocol would be needed. They would all load. Also, I didn't need passwords so I set each machine for "Windows Logon".

              RAB

              AMD K6III-450; Epox EP-MVP3G5; G400DH32; Maxtor 10gig UDMA66; 128meg PC100; Aureal SQ2500 sound; PCI Modem Blaster; Linksys 10/100 NIC; Mag 800V 19"; AL ACS54 4 speaker sound; Logitech wireless mouse; Logitech Wingman Extreme (great for lefties)

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              • #8
                I initially had problems with ICS but not anymore. It seems to me that the main thing is to set up the "clients" to use DCHP (i.e. obtain ip address automatically). Once I did that I had no problems. On my machine (in my room, which I am using now)it behaves exactly as if it were connected directly to the net. It is not. It is connected directly to the machine that has the modems in it via a 10 Mbps connector. Both machines have KNE20BT (Kingston ISA Plug and Play) NICs. I just downloaded a tonload of email. Works much better than wingate ever did (2.x or 3.x) By the way bonding two modems is a good solution if your ISP supports and you can't get cable , ISDN, or ADSL. (Like us poor souls out here in Jamaica) I wonder if DirecPC works out here DirecTV certainly does. In fact the DHCP of ICS works even when I'm in Linux or BeOS. Oh and ICQ and IRC work fine as well

                [This message has been edited by DentyCracker (edited 09-23-1999).]
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                • #9
                  I have reformatted/installed Win98se many times.
                  Each time is a different adventure with ICS. Sometimes it flows, sometimes it blows.
                  Here are some pointers I have discovered.
                  I am using el-cheapo PCI 10Mb SMC EZY Card. I did not have much luck with SMC drivers but the surprising thing is Win98SE detects them as PNP and installs them as Realtek RTL8029(AS) PCI Ethernet NIC. And this works just fine!
                  The Gateway computer will be set the IP address of 192.168.0.1 sub mask 255.255.255.0. Its bindings must include Microsoft Family Logon.
                  The sharing comp can be left at detect IP automatically. And they must have the Windows Family Logon client installed.
                  The Gateway computer creates the floppy disc to set the sharing computers up. This is not required if you make sure the above is installed and you set your IE5 to Lan and dont bother to detect proxy settings automatically.
                  I only need TCP/IP for this to work.
                  You must establish the network before doing any ICS setup and when setting up any sharing computer the gateway comp must be connected to the net and you must see the gateway computer through the lan.
                  Sometimes I will not see other comp when I double clik Network Neighbourhood and I will double clik again and it will work. Sometimes after setting up lan I will not see other comp until I shutdown/restart. Setting up is quite inconsistant. But once running, it is very dpendable.
                  If a complete listing of Network Neighbourhood settings would help just LMK and I will try to post it here with cutnpaste.

                  Hope this helps.
                  Frank.

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                  • #10
                    late but

                    [This message has been edited by Helmchen (edited 09-24-1999).]

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                    • #11
                      Actually, the problem with the AOpen card was that one could setup the networking fine but the moment you enabled ICS the system would hang on the bootup. This problem arose under W9X or W2K, defintely seems to be driver. Any other NIC I had, 3 different types, would work fine. The AOpen was fine as long as it was in a client machine and not the host. Simple solution, I'm currently running 6 machines, I just stuck the AOpen cards in client machines and the problems went away. A generic RealTek 10/100 card does the trick fine, best bang for your buck as it was only C$18.
                      Office: Giga266A, XP1900+, 1GB PC2100. 80GB Maxtor, Matrox G550 Integraph 21", Sceptre 19"
                      Home:#1.Abit IS7, 512MB OCZ DDR 533, P4C2600 at 3260, LiteOn 411S DVDRW, LiteOn 481248 CDRW,WD 80G ATA100, Audigy, 2X IBM P202, Radeon 9600 Pro as well.
                      #2. TB 1.33G/KR7AR133/512MB PC2100. MSI GF4-4200TI, Maxtor 13.6/40G drives/Ricoh 121032 CDRW, Hitachi 8X DVD, AOpen 52X. etc.
                      #3. P3-700-512MB/BX6R2/GF2MX400/
                      etc. #4,#5 Various P2 with G400, G200.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Frank
                        I am using el-cheapo PCI 10Mb SMC EZY Card. I did not have much luck with SMC drivers but the surprising thing is Win98SE detects them as PNP and installs them as Realtek RTL8029(AS) PCI Ethernet NIC. And this works just fine!
                        Normal since SMC EZ cards are realtek8029.... got in my pc.

                        I use ICS works prefectly, and if the clients are win98+ they'll auto configure after a reboot. I only had to do the config on my win95 machine. I really don't see why i sould install something else that would do the same thing with maybe 2-3 more options that i don't even need.

                        Spazm
                        P3-667@810 retail, Asus CUSL2-C, 2*128 mb PC-133(generic), G400DH 16mb, SBLive value, HollyWood+, 1*Realtek 8029(AS) and 1*Realtek 8039C, Quantum 30g, Pioneer DVD-115f

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                        • #13
                          I have ICS working without the DHCP. I specified the IP of the other machines in the same range as the ICS system then made sure that the defualt gateway and the DNS server was the ip of the ICS comp. I share the net, printer and drives from the ICS comp, all works fine with Linux, win98, 95, w2k.

                          You do have to be careful if you are using Zonealarm to set the ip range in security advanced settings. You need to disable the automatic lock aswell otherwise when the screensaver comes on it get really confusing until you notice.
                          1st system

                          Athlon AXIA Y 1Ghz @ 1.40Ghz, coolermaster hsf, Elite K7s6a, 512 MB Crucial DDR RAM, 20GB IBM 7200RPM Hard drive, Radeon 8500le 64mb, SB Audigy, 3 com 10/100NIC, 300w PSU, midi tower, FPS 1600 Surround, Belinea 17" monitor, Intellimouse explorer USB

                          System 2

                          Athlon TB 1.4 @ 1.5, Zalman Flower in silent mode, Elite K7S6A, 768MB DDRAM, Ati Radeon 8500le 64mb ddr, SB Audigy, 3Com 10/100NIC, 80GB IBM 7200rpm, Liteon 16 speed DVD, Lite-on 24102b CDRW, Songcheer Superwide, USB scanner, Intellimouse explorer, Microsoft keyboard, 19in iiyama Monitor, FPS1600

                          system 3
                          Abit ST6 RAID, Celly 1.2 @1.4 ,512MB SDRAM, Zalman Flower HSF noisey mode, ATi Radeon 8500le, SBLIVE, 3com 10/100 NIC, 80GB Seagate barracude HDD, 40GB IBM120GXP, 60GB IBM60GXP,Extra highpoint controller card, 16x Pioneer DVD, Pioneer DVR-104 DVD-RW, ATX Full tower case. 300w psu, 17in LG monitor, 20in Samsumg telly, epson stylus colour 880, 200W RMS Surround sound amp with Mission M71 Speakers.
                          .

                          System 4
                          Elite K7S5A, Duron 1.0, 128mb sdram, Coolermaster hsf, 80GB 120GXP IBM, Liteon 16x DVD, Radeon 7200 64MB DDR, SBLIVE.

                          Linksys 4 port router/firewall

                          512k Cable modem. nice

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