What I am wanting to do is connect my desktop and my laptop together with a networking cable.
Both are running WinXP Pro SP2 and have zonealarm running. The desktop receives its net from an PCI networking card and has another cat5 port onboard (wanting to use that for pc to pc network.) The laptop is wireless but will be hardwired with cat5 for networking. The router is a linksys with wireless, net is cable.
Both computers can see one another, but cannot "talk" to each other. Very high sent pings, but very very few received pings on either one. The desktop's network icon on the bottom right corner states "limited or no connectivity" for hardwired pc networking.
Details for the pc show an IP for the IP and subnet, but gateway, DNS, and WINS are blank.
What the heck is ol' meatwad doing wrong?