network connection for 2 NIC's

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follow up to networking, please.

I have two computers, Arrakis and Caladan. Caladan has one ethernet
jack and the wl-330g works find with Caladan. In Arrakis, I
recently installed an internal NIC. Arrakis already had a single
ethernet jack, so Arrakis now has two NIC's for ethernet. NIC #1
for arrakis is in the mother board.

after installing the new NIC in Arrakis I installed windows. when
the wl-330g is plugged into NIC #2 the wireless setting utility
for the wl-330g recognizes and brings up the wl-330g. however,
there's no internet. when the wl-330g is plugged into NIC #1
and the utility is run, the following error is generated:


---------------------------------
Wireless setting utility
pocket wireless AP

no device was found.
Make sure your network
connection is working
properly then try again.
----------------------------------

Next I unplugged the wl-330g and brought it back to Caladan,
which was still on. simply plugging the wl-330g into caladan
works, the internet comes up right away. because the wl-330g
didn't require re-configuration when brought from arrakis
to caladan, this leads me to conclude that the wl-330g
wasn't configured by the utility on arrakis. oh, the wl-330g works in
infrastructure mode on caladan.

just recently NIC#1 was working fine, on arrakis, and NIC #2
has the driver installed and, apparently, at least finds the
wl-330g.

so, why can't NIC#1 (on arrakis) even find the wl-330g, please?


NIC #1: <http://www.dlink.ca/product.php?PID=124>
wl-330g:
<http://usa.asus.com/products/communication/wireless/wl-330g/overview.HTM>


thanks,

Thufir