Q: I have my friend brand new laptop to connect to my PC. Both are running Win XP Home laptop SP2.
Her network capable already.
My PC had no network card, so I bought a brand new Ethernet 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet card and the new category 5 RJ45 patch cable.
Installed map worry , XP picked it up and installed drivers etc.
Connected the two together with the icon in systray cable.
Little say: “A network cable is unplugged 0 .
Ummm . I have checked and double checked for proper assembly of Both ends.
Network Connections Local Area Connection 2 shows the same status as above; cable unplugged.
Wossup? Dodgy cable?
Or do I need a laptop, PC or both to configure them to be able to see each other. I was told that this type of network setup was easy as pie, connects the two together and hey presto, XP will do. It appears not.
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Re:Crossover cable or a cheap hub.
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Re:Yes, just using a crossover cable from NIC to NIC works.
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Re:So you use a crossover cable and plug both ends into the respective ethernet cards, and presto? Is it really that easy?
I am looking to transfer files, not concerned with internet sharing at this point, this is just a temp setup since I had to run data recovery on FAT32 drive in XP NTFS, so I need to port over the data onto a FAT32 drive again, so all will be well.
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Re:Darnit.
'Kay. Thanks for the reply. 
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Re:To connect directly from PC to PC you need to use a crossover cable, not a patch (straightthrough) cable.
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