philo
Mon Apr 28 17:09:20 PDT 2008
"mc" <wcwall.awm@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:%23CuvYlYqIHA.4280@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I have tried reinstalling the driver in the device manager navigating to
the
> cd win 98 folder mostly. But initially I ran the setup from the cd auto
> starting itself.Then I shut down and inserted the card and re-booted and
> made many attempts to reinstall in the device manager.
>
You need to point the installer to the win98 folder on the cd that came with
your netcard.
It needs to read the .inf file
Have a look there to be sure you do have an .inf file
BTW: one very rare occasions I've seen mfg's have the .inf file be a hidden
file.
so if you do not see the inf file...enable "hidden" files to be shown in
Windows explorer.
Again, it's not too often that mfg's make that mistake
> I removed it from the device manager once and had a dificult time getting
it
> to re-appear in the device manager.
> I think I tried letting win 98 install its own drivers a few times but I
do
> not remember..that was last year, so I'm guessing I need to remove
whatever
> I see in networking and start over?
> mc
Well, if the correct drivers do exist in the Netgear driver cd...
then yes...you may want to boot to safe mode...
then remove all instances of the Netgear card...
reboot and let Windows re-detect it.
At that point you will need to insert the drive cd that came with the card
and point it to the win98 drivers folder
Good luck...Hope you get it working!
>
> "Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in message
> news:ed4q8qMqIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> >> "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
> >> news:O0n7UNLqIHA.3408@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> >
> >> >> "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
> >
> >> > When you go to install the device...all you should have to do is
point
> > to
> >> > installer to that folder.
> >> > If the device is installed but with the yellow warning exclaimation
> >> > mark
> >> > in device manager
> >> > you'll need to take the option to reinstall the drivers
> >
> > "mc" <wcwall.awm@verizon.net> wrote in message
> > news:epmY9GMqIHA.5096@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >
> >> I've tried that with no luck, this is a stubborn machine..
> >
> > We do not understand what you did, and do not
> > understand "no luck." The point is that instal CDs may
> > have more than one SETUP.EXE -- so if using a legacy
> > OS like Win98 we must first navigate to the Win98
> > folder and run the SETUP there and no other (or
> > similarly for DEVICE.INF files, which can show multiple
> > identical filenames on a CD even though their contents
> > may be different (some Win98 or XP or Vista.)
> >
> > We still need to know what you did and what happened,
> > e.g. did you reinstal via Plug & Play (removing the device
> > and rebooting for boot-time detection) or from the
> > /Device Manager / Properties /Update menu or directly
> > from /Win98/DEVICE.INF on the CD? We do not know
> > what happened, whether your procedure installed the
> > same drivers or different drivers that work no better.
> >
> > --
> > Don Phillipson
> > Carlsbad Springs
> > (Ottawa, Canada)
> >
> >
>
>