I have an old Toshiba Laptop, build in 1995, which is still fully operational and used by a family member. The machine runs on Windows 95. It's got two ancient PC card slots, One of them is filled by a Xircom Ethernet adapter which was fairly expensive at the time. I recall transferring files from the Win 95 System to my Win2K system a couple of years ago which was easy.

I tried to connect that ancient Laptop to my current Windows Vista 64 bit System but failed. The Vista machine just found an unidentified network, but did not detect the laptop.

I was able to dial up to the Internet with the modem card that is in the other PCMCIA card slot and managed to transfer some files as attachments to e-mails.

What do I need to do to get a direct LAN connection between these two machines?

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.