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Reminder on installing a NIC
The majority of the advice I found in
searching this newsgroup about how to install a network interface card leads to excessive optimism that Windows will recognize new hardware. So this is for the benefit of, you know, the six people in the world who still need to add an Ethernet card to a Windows 98 system. In my case, I want to download software to an old 200MHz Pentium box to use it as a dedicated controller of a digital camera. When I installed Windows 98 SE on a clean hard drive, it never saw the NIC (an SMC EZ Card 1244) that was plugged in. When I subsequently tried to use the "Add Hardware" icon, the choices it presented, to make a long story short, didn't provide for locating the drivers on the CD-ROM that came with the card. I had deleted all the stuff in the Network icon list box that everybody says has to be deleted. I had also gone to the System icon and deleted everything under "Network adapters." This didn't work, so I then pulled the card, rebooted, replaced the card and rebooted, looking for Windows to announce new hardware, which it didn't. Finally I found a posting that mentioned the "PCI Ethernet Controller." I went to the System icon again, found it lurking in the device lineup, and deleted it. This did it. I didn't even have to reboot. I simply used the "Add hardware" icon, which this time gave me a series of pop-ups that identified the card and allowed me to designate the CD-ROM as the source for the driver. When this sequence was finished, I used the Run widget to execute winipcfg to release and refresh the IP, and I was on-line. -- Charles Packer mailboxATcpacker.org http://cpacker.org/whatnews |
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Reminder on installing a NIC
Although I didn't have the exact same problem, I can identify with what you
are saying and agree that 98SE seems to have a number of problems with NICS and setting up Ethernet connections. I was also told that Windows will sort it - wrong it didn't and revealed a known problem in this software of not being able to find the drivers even though you tell it where they are located. Anyway, I am going to upgrade to XP shortly - now that should be a challenge! Alan wrote in message oups.com... The majority of the advice I found in searching this newsgroup about how to install a network interface card leads to excessive optimism that Windows will recognize new hardware. So this is for the benefit of, you know, the six people in the world who still need to add an Ethernet card to a Windows 98 system. In my case, I want to download software to an old 200MHz Pentium box to use it as a dedicated controller of a digital camera. When I installed Windows 98 SE on a clean hard drive, it never saw the NIC (an SMC EZ Card 1244) that was plugged in. When I subsequently tried to use the "Add Hardware" icon, the choices it presented, to make a long story short, didn't provide for locating the drivers on the CD-ROM that came with the card. I had deleted all the stuff in the Network icon list box that everybody says has to be deleted. I had also gone to the System icon and deleted everything under "Network adapters." This didn't work, so I then pulled the card, rebooted, replaced the card and rebooted, looking for Windows to announce new hardware, which it didn't. Finally I found a posting that mentioned the "PCI Ethernet Controller." I went to the System icon again, found it lurking in the device lineup, and deleted it. This did it. I didn't even have to reboot. I simply used the "Add hardware" icon, which this time gave me a series of pop-ups that identified the card and allowed me to designate the CD-ROM as the source for the driver. When this sequence was finished, I used the Run widget to execute winipcfg to release and refresh the IP, and I was on-line. -- Charles Packer mailboxATcpacker.org http://cpacker.org/whatnews |
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Reminder on installing a NIC
Although I didn't have the exact same problem, I can identify with what you
are saying and agree that 98SE seems to have a number of problems with NICS and setting up Ethernet connections. I was also told that Windows will sort it - wrong it didn't and revealed a known problem in this software of not being able to find the drivers even though you tell it where they are located. Anyway, I am going to upgrade to XP shortly - now that should be a challenge! Alan wrote in message oups.com... The majority of the advice I found in searching this newsgroup about how to install a network interface card leads to excessive optimism that Windows will recognize new hardware. So this is for the benefit of, you know, the six people in the world who still need to add an Ethernet card to a Windows 98 system. In my case, I want to download software to an old 200MHz Pentium box to use it as a dedicated controller of a digital camera. When I installed Windows 98 SE on a clean hard drive, it never saw the NIC (an SMC EZ Card 1244) that was plugged in. When I subsequently tried to use the "Add Hardware" icon, the choices it presented, to make a long story short, didn't provide for locating the drivers on the CD-ROM that came with the card. I had deleted all the stuff in the Network icon list box that everybody says has to be deleted. I had also gone to the System icon and deleted everything under "Network adapters." This didn't work, so I then pulled the card, rebooted, replaced the card and rebooted, looking for Windows to announce new hardware, which it didn't. Finally I found a posting that mentioned the "PCI Ethernet Controller." I went to the System icon again, found it lurking in the device lineup, and deleted it. This did it. I didn't even have to reboot. I simply used the "Add hardware" icon, which this time gave me a series of pop-ups that identified the card and allowed me to designate the CD-ROM as the source for the driver. When this sequence was finished, I used the Run widget to execute winipcfg to release and refresh the IP, and I was on-line. -- Charles Packer mailboxATcpacker.org http://cpacker.org/whatnews |
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Reminder on installing a NIC
Although I didn't have the exact same problem, I can identify with what you
are saying and agree that 98SE seems to have a number of problems with NICS and setting up Ethernet connections. I was also told that Windows will sort it - wrong it didn't and revealed a known problem in this software of not being able to find the drivers even though you tell it where they are located. Anyway, I am going to upgrade to XP shortly - now that should be a challenge! Alan wrote in message oups.com... The majority of the advice I found in searching this newsgroup about how to install a network interface card leads to excessive optimism that Windows will recognize new hardware. So this is for the benefit of, you know, the six people in the world who still need to add an Ethernet card to a Windows 98 system. In my case, I want to download software to an old 200MHz Pentium box to use it as a dedicated controller of a digital camera. When I installed Windows 98 SE on a clean hard drive, it never saw the NIC (an SMC EZ Card 1244) that was plugged in. When I subsequently tried to use the "Add Hardware" icon, the choices it presented, to make a long story short, didn't provide for locating the drivers on the CD-ROM that came with the card. I had deleted all the stuff in the Network icon list box that everybody says has to be deleted. I had also gone to the System icon and deleted everything under "Network adapters." This didn't work, so I then pulled the card, rebooted, replaced the card and rebooted, looking for Windows to announce new hardware, which it didn't. Finally I found a posting that mentioned the "PCI Ethernet Controller." I went to the System icon again, found it lurking in the device lineup, and deleted it. This did it. I didn't even have to reboot. I simply used the "Add hardware" icon, which this time gave me a series of pop-ups that identified the card and allowed me to designate the CD-ROM as the source for the driver. When this sequence was finished, I used the Run widget to execute winipcfg to release and refresh the IP, and I was on-line. -- Charles Packer mailboxATcpacker.org http://cpacker.org/whatnews |
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Reminder on installing a NIC
Although I didn't have the exact same problem, I can identify with what you
are saying and agree that 98SE seems to have a number of problems with NICS and setting up Ethernet connections. I was also told that Windows will sort it - wrong it didn't and revealed a known problem in this software of not being able to find the drivers even though you tell it where they are located. Anyway, I am going to upgrade to XP shortly - now that should be a challenge! Alan wrote in message oups.com... The majority of the advice I found in searching this newsgroup about how to install a network interface card leads to excessive optimism that Windows will recognize new hardware. So this is for the benefit of, you know, the six people in the world who still need to add an Ethernet card to a Windows 98 system. In my case, I want to download software to an old 200MHz Pentium box to use it as a dedicated controller of a digital camera. When I installed Windows 98 SE on a clean hard drive, it never saw the NIC (an SMC EZ Card 1244) that was plugged in. When I subsequently tried to use the "Add Hardware" icon, the choices it presented, to make a long story short, didn't provide for locating the drivers on the CD-ROM that came with the card. I had deleted all the stuff in the Network icon list box that everybody says has to be deleted. I had also gone to the System icon and deleted everything under "Network adapters." This didn't work, so I then pulled the card, rebooted, replaced the card and rebooted, looking for Windows to announce new hardware, which it didn't. Finally I found a posting that mentioned the "PCI Ethernet Controller." I went to the System icon again, found it lurking in the device lineup, and deleted it. This did it. I didn't even have to reboot. I simply used the "Add hardware" icon, which this time gave me a series of pop-ups that identified the card and allowed me to designate the CD-ROM as the source for the driver. When this sequence was finished, I used the Run widget to execute winipcfg to release and refresh the IP, and I was on-line. -- Charles Packer mailboxATcpacker.org http://cpacker.org/whatnews |
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Reminder on installing a NIC
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Finally I found a posting that mentioned the "PCI Ethernet Controller." I went to the System icon again, found it lurking in the device lineup, and deleted it. This did it. I didn't even have to reboot. I simply used the "Add hardware" icon, which this time gave me a series of pop-ups that identified the card and allowed me to designate the CD-ROM as the source for the driver. When this sequence was finished, I used the Run widget to execute winipcfg to release and refresh the IP, and I was on-line. all you would have to have done at that point would have been "update drivers" |
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Reminder on installing a NIC
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Finally I found a posting that mentioned the "PCI Ethernet Controller." I went to the System icon again, found it lurking in the device lineup, and deleted it. This did it. I didn't even have to reboot. I simply used the "Add hardware" icon, which this time gave me a series of pop-ups that identified the card and allowed me to designate the CD-ROM as the source for the driver. When this sequence was finished, I used the Run widget to execute winipcfg to release and refresh the IP, and I was on-line. all you would have to have done at that point would have been "update drivers" |
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