I have a small lan that is working with 3 computers. My wife "won" an old
Toshiba laptop with absolutely no software or manuals. I would like be able
to connect to the lan with this laptop to facilitate file transfers. I have
the cable and pcmcia ethernet card. I installed the card and supposedly good
drivers (downloaded from Driverguide.com). When I boot the laptop, it gives
the message:

This DHCP client was unable to obtain an IP network address from a DHCP
server. Do you want to see future DHCP messages?

It cannot see the rest of the network and the WinXP computer cannot see the
laptop. Same workgroup name, different computer name. Installed TCP/IP,
Netbeui, etc. on the laptop. I seem to remember that WinXP dropped Netbeui
support. Is this my problem and is there a fix? Should I be looking
elsewhere for the problems? TIA

Jim
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