SUCCESS
Thank you Richard
Thank you Richard
I found "Remove from bridge" in the right-click pulldowns for each network connection.
After removal I had access to the Properties of the wireless by right-clucking on the wireless icon - as help and you had told be should have be the normal situation. The wireless connection still couldn't get an IP address and Repair didn't help.
I powered everything down I went to bed. Got up in the whee hours of the morning and tried again. IT WORKED
To shorten the story, when this Win98SE machine crashes [frequently] I have to reboot the router in order to get connectivity back.
I still have the situation of some one-way visibility:
deskA can see laptop & deskB
deskB can see laptop & deskA
laptop can only see deskA (this machine)
I can live with that for at least a while. DeskB is a Pentium 100 I resurected and loaded w/ Win98SE for these tests.
So THANK YOU RICHARD of Naples
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