anyone have onboard LAN

[sam]

i just finnished building a computer for my uncle that i plan on shippin to him tomarrow. he has cable and i have dsl(w/ home network) its being a pain for his computer to see my modem, all of my other computers are on line fine its just a pain to configger it to my network.( im not to experienced with networkin) i was wondering what i have to do to connect it to his cable modem?(plug and play?) i dont want to mess arround tring to set it up to my network and then just start over when i take it to him. if all else fails i can always just disable the onboard and put in his nic card from his old computer but i would like t know what to do for his onboard to see the modem. the manual is no help
his sats:
Biostar m7ncd pro with onboard lan mobo

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...138-227&DEPA=1

amd 2100+
2x 256mb 2700 crucial
40 gb hdd
winxp home w/sp1
PC WAVE AGP Sis Xabre Video Card Model AG200T8-D64


light on dvd rom
light on cd-rw

BIG step up from his old pentium 100mhz

[VHockey86]

wether you use onboard LAN or an ethernet PCI card its not going to matter.

It may depend on the ISP and the modem, but generall XP will automatically recognize the modem as the local area connection and it should work fine, especially since theres no PPPoE involved for cable. If that doesnt work there might be software that comes from the ISP or you could just call them, they'd certainly know how to set it up if your uncle doesnt remember

[Peter M]

I'm afraid you didn't make any sense at all.

Anyhow. Onboard LAN is absolutely no different to PCI NI cards, as far as the software side goes. So when you've done something wrong there, doing it the same way again will give you the exact same symptoms.

[sam]

ok i ws just checkin . because when i put my two compters on my network (a few months back) it took me a day or two to get them to work on the network and right now i dont remember everything i did to get them on. sence he already has his old computer( pentium 100) workin on his modem i should be fine gettin it to work . im leavin in the mornin to drive to Mississippi(12hr drive) to deliver it to my uncle and have a little vacation. ill check back if i have any problems

[fshanda]

Just check in the device manager to see if the onboard lan is installed correctly. If you see any yellow exclamation points or questionmarks for the network adapter you dont have the drivers installed correctly. You should just be able to plug it right in like the old one. Unless, as stated above, the ISP requires some special software. Good luck and enjoy the trip.

[Peter M]

Oh, so you haven't even tried yet? Well. Good luck then. Do everything exactly like you've done it successfully before.

[sam]

well the trip was fun and all went well . the computer got on line with out a problem and my uncle could not be happier. i even talked him in to gettin a new 19" flat screen CRT monitor
thanks again
sam

[Peter M]

Result! Well done then.