Archive for June, 2005

What’s the matter with my network adapter?

In an earlier post, I talked about a basic hardware error that can end your attempt at networking: not plugging your network cable properly.
There is a related problem to this and it involves your network card or adapter. In short: make sure your computer’s operating system recognizes that your adapter is there.

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“The 3 Elements of Computer Networking”

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Don’t you hate when this happens?

Yeah, tell me this never happened to you:
You go the My Network Places or Network Neighborhood. You’re looking for that shared folder on your other computer. You know — the one with the mp3s that you want to burn onto a CD that you have cued up on this computer.
You can’t see the folder. […]

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