Hope there are some people with good memories out there. I have an 486 running DOS 5.0/Win3.1 which I am working to network into a cable modem. I believe I'm making some progress, but am looking for any advice I can find. Starting off at http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/win31.htm, I semi-succesfully installed 'Microsoft Network Client for MS-DOS'. The NIC driver seems to load, and so does TCP/IP. I connected the NIC to the cable modem and booted the computer. I appeared to get a successful DHCP configuration, as doing an IPCONFIG came up with the usual numbers. So far so good. Doing a "Ping " resulted in an echo. "Ping " and "Ping " also resulted in echos. However, "Ping " results in a lookup error - it appears there is some problem with DNS. The DHCP config (IPCONFIG) does show valid DNS IP's. Any thoughs on where to look, or what to change? I'd like to get thing working properly in DOS before configuring Win3.1. Also, when booting the computer, the network asks for a login name, and password. I can just hit to get by them, but I'd rather not have them show at all. Is there a way to configure things so the network drivers boot without asking for a name/password? Thanks, Dave

Looks like the board doesn't like triangle brackets... Ping to an IP number returns an echo, Ping to a domain name returns a lookup error. Dave