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Originally Posted by Red October1984
I own 2 computers. A Samsung RV510 Windows 7 Home Premium Laptop, and a Dell Windows 98. The laptop can connect to the internet, the 98 cannot. I play old flight sims and older games on the 98. I wanna know a way that i can download files from the internet on my laptop, and transfer them to the 98. I.E. IL-2 Sturmovik Patches, MSFS 2004 Planes, etc. Ive tried several things, but nothing seems to work. Flash Drive, CD-Rs, the sort.
Nothing works.  |
Why can't the Win 98 get on the internet? I have a seperate computer (Win 98/DOS dual boot) for old games also and I'm able to put in on the LAN and it's able to connect to the internet. My LAN has a Win 7 computer on it and a Windows Home Server on it. They all can 'talk' to one another no problems.
Boot up the Win 98 computer and make sure it's connected to your LAN. Open a CMD window and type 'IPCONFIG /ALL'. See if your LAN adaptor is listed or not and not what the IP address of it is. Go to your Win 7 computer and open a CMD window and type the same thing. Note the IP address of the Win 7 computer. Go back to the Win 98 computer and in the CMD window type 'ping x' where x is the IP address of the Win 7 computer. If the Win 98 computer is able to ping the Win 7 computer then your LAN hardware is fine and it's a software/settings/config/IP address issue.