Linksys wireless PCI adapter

[ceej]

I am having trouble getting the adapter to work. After I load the software and it asks for the winows 98 cd it cant find the files it is looking for.
Also when computer starts up I get a resource conflict error on this card. Can anyone give me any suggestions on where to start. I tried moving the card to anothe PCI slot but made difference.

[Mark Adams]

ceej wrote:
> I am having trouble getting the adapter to work. After I load the software and it asks for the winows 98 cd it cant find the files it is looking for.
> Also when computer starts up I get a resource conflict error on this card. Can anyone give me any suggestions on where to start. I tried moving the card to anothe PCI slot but made difference.

Not sure how much I can help ceej, it's been a while since I've wrestled
with this one and I don't have a Win98 machine in front of me, but here
you go:

Go to your network configuration (rt. click Net
Neighborhood->Properties) and uninstall any network adaptors. Shut down
and physically remove the card. This *should* clear the config. info.
for the card completely.

Reboot and go to your BIOS configuration. If you have an option for
"Plug and Play OS" deactivate it (set it to "no" or "false" or whatever
to indicate that you don't want it). Also confirm that your PCI steering
is set to automatically assign IRQ addresses. This should be in your
BIOS under "PCI". The PCI steering bugaboos can be a pain. See here for
more: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;182604

Shutdown again and install the card according to the instructions -- if
Linksys wants you to install the drivers, etc. before installing
hardware do that. If they want the hardware installed first, install
the card. Make sure you get the card seated in the slot properly.

Restart. Now, I'm not entirely sure how to deal with the installer not
finding files on the Win98 disc. Could the disc be damaged? If so, you
might try copying the contents of the Win98 directory on the disd to a
folder on your harddrive, then pointing the installer to that directory
when it asks for files. You might also be able to make note of the file
names the installer is looking for and get those into a folder, either
by copying them from the disc or downloading them from the net somewhere
(Google).

The resource conflict is most likley a failure of the system to allocate
a proper IRQ to the card. When you boot the machine, you may be able to
see the POST info (you may have to hit Esc. to clear a manufacturer's
splash screen). In this POST info. you will see a table of devices and
the IRQ to which they are assigned. If they step on each other, the
device will not function. You can override the default IRQ assignment
in the Resources tab of the Device Manager entry for the device in
question, but I really can't recommend that.

Once you get the system to recognize the card, it's just a matter of
tweaking TCP/IP properties to get it setup. With a standalone machine
you could get lucky with the default config. and have everything work
right out of the gate. To test it, issue "ipconfig /all" (no quotes) at
a DOS prompt and you should get information about an IP address, subnet
mask, gateway, etc., and you should have ping to localhost and the Internet.

I have seen some systems that were really reluctant to give up old
configuration info. and just simply had to have the card pulled and
reinstalled, but eventually it always worked. I'm not entirely sure
about your situation and I could be 100% wrong, but it won't hurt
anything to try what I describe above. :-)

Let us know.
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[Mark Adams]

Mark Adams wrote:

> Once you get the system to recognize the card, it's just a matter of
> tweaking TCP/IP properties to get it setup. With a standalone machine
> you could get lucky with the default config. and have everything work
> right out of the gate. To test it, issue "ipconfig /all" (no quotes) at
> a DOS prompt and you should get information about an IP address, subnet
> mask, gateway, etc., and you should have ping to localhost and the
> Internet.

I've made this mistake 3 times today: the command in Win98 is not
"ipconfig /all", it should actually be "winipcfg".

Sorry, I'm a little out of touch.

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