network connection for 2 NIC's

[hawat.thufir]

follow up to networking, please.

I have two computers, Arrakis and Caladan. Caladan has one ethernet
jack and the wl-330g works find with Caladan. In Arrakis, I
recently installed an internal NIC. Arrakis already had a single
ethernet jack, so Arrakis now has two NIC's for ethernet. NIC #1
for arrakis is in the mother board.

after installing the new NIC in Arrakis I installed windows. when
the wl-330g is plugged into NIC #2 the wireless setting utility
for the wl-330g recognizes and brings up the wl-330g. however,
there's no internet. when the wl-330g is plugged into NIC #1
and the utility is run, the following error is generated:


---------------------------------
Wireless setting utility
pocket wireless AP

no device was found.
Make sure your network
connection is working
properly then try again.
----------------------------------

Next I unplugged the wl-330g and brought it back to Caladan,
which was still on. simply plugging the wl-330g into caladan
works, the internet comes up right away. because the wl-330g
didn't require re-configuration when brought from arrakis
to caladan, this leads me to conclude that the wl-330g
wasn't configured by the utility on arrakis. oh, the wl-330g works in
infrastructure mode on caladan.

just recently NIC#1 was working fine, on arrakis, and NIC #2
has the driver installed and, apparently, at least finds the
wl-330g.

so, why can't NIC#1 (on arrakis) even find the wl-330g, please?


NIC #1: <http://www.dlink.ca/product.php?PID=124>
wl-330g:
<http://usa.asus.com/products/communication/wireless/wl-330g/overview.HTM>


thanks,

Thufir

 

[j9]

What are the network parameters on each network? Have you tried setting up
static addresses on each? What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[Phillip Windell]

1. Only use one Nic.
2. Disable the one you aren't using.
3. Leave the one you aren't using set to Automatic (DHCP) and allow changes
to take effect before you disable it (this gets the unused IP# out of the
registry).