I have a laptop running XP Pro with an internal ethernet adapter, a wireless EVDO sprint PCMCIA card, and a PCMCIA ethernet adapter. When using the PCMCIA ethernet card, the wireless card is absent and vice versa. I am trying to get the PC to run LAN over the internal (when network copper is available), and use the PCMCIA ethernet adapter ('e-net2' for short) to direct connect to other equipment for file tranfsers. The 'other' equipment runs OS-9, it has only a single enet port at 10 meg speed. When all is set up, I am able to ping the PC from the OS-9 equip thru e-net2 connection using a crossover cable. However, the PC can't ping the OS-9 hardware. I can ping each IP for each network adapter in the PC using command prompt, but also get wierd results: Pinging nnn.nnn.20.44 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from nnn.nnn.20.44: Request timed out. Reply from nnn.nnn.20.44: Request timed out. Reply from nnn.nnn.20.44: Request timed out. Reply from nnn.nnn.20.44: Request timed out. Ping statistics for nnn.20.20.44: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms U:\>ping nnn.nnn.20.40 Pinging nnn.nnn.20.40 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from nnn.nnn.20.40: Request timed out. Reply from nnn.nnn.20.40: Request timed out. Reply from nnn.nnn.20.40: Request timed out. Reply from nnn.nnn.20.40: Request timed out. Ping statistics for nnn.nnn.20.40: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms IP has been changed here, but it is all the same where the 'nnn.nnn' are. My OS-9 based gives this when pinging the PC: $ ping nnn.nnn.20.44 PING nnn.nnn.44 (nnn.nnn.20.44): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from nnn.nnn.20.44: ttl=128 time=8 ms In Network Connection in XP, a right click gives the option to brigde connections. Here come the questions: 1. Is bridging the network connections what I need to do? 2. Can I specify an adapter to use when pinging other hardware? 3. Is there additional software windows needs to work with 2 seperate adapters? 4. Can apps be pointed in which adapter to use?
