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Old July 8th 06, 06:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
StargateFan
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Default Tips on finding a USB driver ...

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:32:15 -0500, "charlie R"
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I'm all of a sudden having troubles with my 7-port USB hub. It

worked
for many days and now, no go. A couple of days ago I had printer
troubles. It's my fault, I forgot where I was printing from (the

USB
flash drive). Both the flash drive and the printer are on the hub,
which is one situation I forgot to consider when avoiding

simultaneous
uses of USB devices.

I believe I initially got a driver for this 7-port from the Win98SE
CD, but that isn't working anymore. In the device manager, I have

an
unkown USB device that nothing I've done fixes. Unlike the attached
4-port hub, cannot seem to find actual drivers for the 7-port. Up
till now it seemed to work on a generic driver but can't remember
really what process dl it. I'd like to fix this once and for all as
I'm now having trouble with everything but the modem without a lot

of
fiddling.

I went to the Dynex site and this is my 7-port:
http://www.dynexproducts.com/pc-90-2...obile-hub.aspx.
It doesn't seem to be listed on their dl page
(under the "USB and Firewire" button):
http://www.dynexproducts.com/t-drivers.aspx

I will try to contact them today at work when I have a moment (at
1-800-305-2204), but does anyone have any suggestions in case they
can't help? The packaging says Win98SE not supported (though the
website says differently), but I'm concerned that they'll say they
can't help me because of that.

Thanks in advance for any help. Everything was working swimmingly
till now. D

I've used two different makes of USB Hubs with Win 98 and 98SE.
Windows already supports USB, and they are backward compatible, so you
don't need to download drivers for them. Have you tried unplugging
it, and removing it in Device Manager and letting Windows re-install
it? Have you tried it on another computer? Could be you fried it
when you had the printer and flash drive incident.

Check out USBMAN.com for some useful information. Hope some of this
helps.


Thanks for the help. I'll look into it. Despite the generic drivers
in Win98SE, I don't seem to get consistent use out of the new 7-port.
The 4-port is consistently good.

I'll see if disconnecting and re-connecting works.

Cheers. D