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Local area network

Apr 14, 2005 8:34PM PDT

I am currently trying to conect my laptop to my main computor using ethernet cards and crossover cablebut i keep geting the message NETWORK CABLE UNPLAGED on my main system. The laptop is running windows 95se and my main computor is running win xp, how do i get it to connect. Both cards are working, I have set them up independet of each other but when i connect them to gether they wont work, I am trying to accessthe internet through the laptop as if it were a server, the main comp has broadband. Can you help. I have been at this now for over two weeks and can not find a solution

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