Had a network set up at home with comcast cable going into a motorola modem going into a D-Link(I think) wireless router. One machine (win 98) was hard-wired to modem, laptop(win xp) connected wirelessly. Worked fine for many months, then there was a big storm.
Since then:
1) when connected through router:
a)win98 machine displays"Network Cable Disconnected" message, even though,of course, the cable is connected.
b)laptop not picking up wireless connection
2) when connected directly to modem:
a)win98 machine displays"Network Cable Disconnected" message, even though,of course, the cable is connected.
b)laptop is able to connect to internet (yeah!)
c)ALTERNATE win98 machine, which has not been connected to anything for many months, behaves the same way as other win98 machine, with "cable disconnected message"
cycled modem and rebooted everytime, etc.
suggestions?
thanks!!