I am using windows XP on my main computer and windows 98 on my laptop.
I have a BT voyager wireless router. My main PC is hard wired into the router and the laptop accesses the internet via wireless through the router.
However whenever the laptop is switched on and tries to access the internet it gets the message
' the system has detected a conflict for IP address 192168. etc with the system having hardware address 52:54:00 etc '
At the same time my main XP computer gets the message 'windows system error. There is a conflict with another system on the network'
My ISP, tiscali tells me that when two computers are on the same broadband connection they only use one IP address and it is up to the router to differentiate between the two computers.
Any idea how I can resolve this. Do you think it is a router problem, or is the wrong IP address set in the laptop. I dont know how to change IP addresses.
Ben
I have a BT voyager wireless router. My main PC is hard wired into the router and the laptop accesses the internet via wireless through the router.
However whenever the laptop is switched on and tries to access the internet it gets the message
' the system has detected a conflict for IP address 192168. etc with the system having hardware address 52:54:00 etc '
At the same time my main XP computer gets the message 'windows system error. There is a conflict with another system on the network'
My ISP, tiscali tells me that when two computers are on the same broadband connection they only use one IP address and it is up to the router to differentiate between the two computers.
Any idea how I can resolve this. Do you think it is a router problem, or is the wrong IP address set in the laptop. I dont know how to change IP addresses.
Ben