LAN
I have read the stuff here on setting up a LAN. I want to connect two computers, one has internet access. The other used to, but cannot log on for some reason. Before I buy a new card, I want to see if I can just connect the bad one to the good one using a blue ethernet cable. They both have the LAN card installed. I ran the connection wizard, but when I get to the second step "The Wizard found disconnected network hardware" I could not get it to connect. It shows normal operation in device manager, and the blue ehternet cord is plugged into it, then directly to the host computer. When I run the Wizard on the host computer it gives me the same problem. If I tell it to ignore the disconnected hardware it lets me go through the whole setup but of course it does not work. I guess the disconnected hardware is the problem. Can anyone tell me what to do to fix this problem?