First of all you need to obtain nmake. Here is a link for Nmake1.5. This is a self-extracting archive.

My first recomendation is that you make a directory under your perl distribution called nmake. Something like c:\Perl\nmake\. Download the file to that location. Run it from that directory so everything unzips to your new nmake directory.

Then make sure nmake is part of your PATH system variable. Check your autoexec.bat file. You should see a line similar to PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\SOANDSO. Add your nmake directory to your path like so PATH=C:\Perl\nmake;C:\WINDOWS;C:\SOANDSO.

Then you should:

• open up a DOS prompt
• move to the directory where you unzipped your module files
• type the following commands
  • perl makefile.pl
  • nmake
  • nmake test
  • nmake install

Make sure there are no error messages when installing. Then just drop a use Net::Ping at the top of your script and see if it works

Addressing your P.S. statement...you should download your modules from Comprehensive Perl Archive Network aka CPAN any module that is highly used by perl coders should be present there

If you have any questions you can msg me. Hope that helped.