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Bonehead can't transfer network card driver
This will likely sound pathetically boneheaded, but...
I'm setting up a new hard drive, have Windows 98/SE installed, and am now in the process of rounding up and installing the necessary drivers. I'm having trouble with that WinZip nonsense - I've downloaded (twice) from the D-Link site the driver for the network card I've been using (with cable modem, formerly DSL,) which is a D-Link DFE-530TX+, and of course it downloads as a zip file. Since I'm not using the old drive as a slave, and since I've long since lost the D-Link driver disk, I have to get the driver onto a floppy or CD-R, then swap in the new drive, then attempt to get the driver installed. When I get onto the new drive and have the device manager search for a driver for the D-Link card, it says it can't find it - even after I've unzipped all the files onto the old drive, burned them onto a CD-R, and have the new drive's device manager search that CD-R. Right away it starts saying "such&such program ("CAT"?) is missing," etc. A big thumbs-down for D-Link not bothering to put their driver into a self-launching Install Wizard format, but that doesn't change the situation. Can anyone shed some light? I have the sneaking hunch this is something painfully obvious and simple, but damned if I can see it.... ZB |
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Zaphod wrote:
This will likely sound pathetically boneheaded, but... I'm setting up a new hard drive, have Windows 98/SE installed, and am now in the process of rounding up and installing the necessary drivers. I'm having trouble with that WinZip nonsense - I've downloaded (twice) from the D-Link site the driver for the network card I've been using (with cable modem, formerly DSL,) which is a D-Link DFE-530TX+, and of course it downloads as a zip file. Since I'm not using the old drive as a slave, and since I've long since lost the D-Link driver disk, I have to get the driver onto a floppy or CD-R, then swap in the new drive, then attempt to get the driver installed. When I get onto the new drive and have the device manager search for a driver for the D-Link card, it says it can't find it - even after I've unzipped all the files onto the old drive, burned them onto a CD-R, and have the new drive's device manager search that CD-R. Right away it starts saying "such&such program ("CAT"?) is missing," etc. A big thumbs-down for D-Link not bothering to put their driver into a self-launching Install Wizard format, but that doesn't change the situation. Can anyone shed some light? I have the sneaking hunch this is something painfully obvious and simple, but damned if I can see it.... ZB A couple of things come to mind. First, if you do it via "Add Hardware" rather than the dialog that comes up during boot, you can access the "Find File" item in the Start menu, and that can be helpful in looking for files it complains it can't find. Second, when you add networking, some of the files it looks for are on the W98 disk rather than coming with the driver (especially ".cat" files), so you may need to direct it towards your W98 CD. Hope That Helps. -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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