Ao’ers help!!

I have one phobia in this cyber world we live in and that’s NIC cards! I don’t know what it is but I don’t like them and they don’t like me. If they even think I’m gonna try and install them they spontaneously break or injure me. My phobia comes from an incident that happened whilst installing a small office network about 6 years ago, to cut a long story short I asked someone to ‘throw’ me a Network Card. A hospital visit and Six stitches later my fear was born.

Anyway look it’s like this. At home I have Blueyonder as my ISP (600k). I have one machine successfully connected to the internet already:
Win98 > NetScreen Firewall > Webstar Cable Modem > Internet.

I want to connect another machine:
Win98 > 4 Port Hub > NetScreen Firewall > Webstar Cable Modem > Internet.

But for some reason it just will not connect I’ve tested the new 4 port hub and there’s nothing wrong with it. I’ve tested the NIC and that works fine too.

What I have tried so far:
- Registering the new NIC’s Mac address with Blueyonder
- Manually and automatically assigning IP’s
- Totally formatting the machine and re-installing Win98
- Put the NetScreen Firewall into transparent mode (incase there where any Mac addressing conflicts)
- Permit ANY inbound and outbound traffic to the Firewall
- Swapped all the cables over and trying different variations of cross over and patch cables.

The damn thing still wont connect. It gets as far as ‘Detecting Proxy’ and then ‘This page cannot be found’.

What am I doing wrong? Why do NICs hate me? Who’s stolen my baby sledge hammer?

HELP!! PLEASE!!

Thanks
VicE$DoS$ Z)E)R)0