The mp3 player is a Craig Model CMA317B. It is designed to work with
Win98SE (which is our OS) and has USB 2.0 interface. I emailed their tech
support, but no surprise, there's been no response.


"glee" wrote in message
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An mp3 player *should* be backward-compatible with USB 1.1, but the
documentation
for the player should state that it is, as MEB mentioned.

Does he have Win98SE?

Exactly what is the name and model of the player? It might help if we
could look up
its probably sparse documentation, if it's a Sunplus.

Does the driver disc have a folder tree if you browse it with Windows
Explorer? If
so, look for a Win98 folder and/or a Driver folder to point the installer
to.

If all else fails, you may be able to access the player using a generic
USB driver
for Win98SE, and manually copy the songs you want to play, to the device.
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"DaffyD®" wrote in message
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By USB adapter, you mean like the 5-port USB 2.0 PCI Card Terhune wrote
about in another thread? Does it come with drivers--does it need it's
own
drivers? How do I find out if my MB supports 2.0?

"MEB" meb@not wrote in message
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In ,
DaffyD® contemplated and posted:

| I forgot to say that the driver is a USB 2.0 but my system is USB 1,
| but I thought the 2.0 driver would be backward compatible. Will I
| need to buy a USB 2.0 card?

USB 2.0 devices need USB 2.0 unless specifically noted... the driver
would
have to supply support for USB 1{.1}.
USB 2.0 adapters are relatively cheap, however, they need 98SE to
function
properly.

|
| "DaffyD®" wrote in message
| ...
| My son was just given a Mp3 player which needs to have a Windows 98
| USB driver installed. The problem is that Windows doesn't detect the
| driver on the install CD when running the Add Hardware wizard.
|
| What happens is that the driver setup program is installed, Windows
| builds a new driver information database, detects that it has found
| the Sunplus Multidisk disk and will search for a driver for it, but
| doesn't find one.
|
| I've tried the "Search for the best driver for your device" option,
| the "Display a list of all drivers" option, "Have Disk" and that all
| didn't work. Craig doesn't have a website so there are no FAQs. The
| player won't work with Windows if the driver isn't installed.
|
| I guess to generalize the question, how does one install a USB
| driver from a CD when Windows won't detect it?
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| { : [|]=( DaffyD®
|
| If I knew where I was I'd be there now.

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