Problems installing network card (ethernet 10/100 NIC PCI)

It does have a setup.exe although I dont know whatit does as I have
never tried it yet.
I just assumed i could install windows from this disk, I could be wrong!!

 

As I said in my rather long (last) reply to Kony, it appears following the
'manual' didn't work for the person who produced the 'manual'.
It clearly shows it not finding a file it is looking for, and advises you
to click OK which will result in the same situation (file not found).
It does also say 'check path below is correct' but as you don't know
what the path should be anyway thats not much help.

However I did get past this 'impass' by unzipping some of the .cab
files on the disk, copying them elsewhere and then changing the
path to that new location. However I got futher problem later
on (total lock ups). I managed on a couple of occasions to
avoid these lockups and 'complete' the installation however
it always resulted in the it saying setup failed or something
like that.

I will give it another try though.

 

But the way you normally perform the installation from that CD is by running
that setup.exe (simply double-click on it). I strongly suspect that you will get
up & running if you do that although it could be problematical now because of
the other installations. In any case, you've nothing to lose by trying it at
this point.

Bob

 

I have given up on it for the time being.
I just had a rather nasty experience!!
As I have two comupters but only one monitor I
have been, repeatedly plugging the monitor into each
computer to see the screen. Anyway its hard to see what you
are doing bending over the computer and I managed to break off
one of the pins on the connector!!! (and bend another one).
I though I would be without my lovely computer (and internet)
however when I straightened out the bent pin the monitor still worked
despite the missiing pin (I woonder what its for?).

Actually I just looked it up and it is pin 7, Analog video ground.
So obviously not too important!! (thankfully).

Gonna leave it alone for now before I do anymore damage!!!

 

I will try it a bit later when I am feeling braver. As you say I have
nothing
to lose as it is a spare hard drive I will be using, if it doesn't
work i can just delete whatever it puts on it. i need to find the jumper
settings to set it to master anyway, but I think they might be written on
that drive. I am a little warey fiddling about with my computer at the
moment since I broke a pin off the monitor.
Actually I am not 100% sure I did break the pin off, I suspect that pin
was always missing. as they seem fairly robust, but you never know.
apart from anything else it would be interestring to see how well the
computer performed from a fresh install, i think all the [email protected]
it accumulated over the years slowed it down considerably. I will have a go
at it over the next few days anyway.

 

There appears to be some sort of miscommunication then. I was under the
impression that you were still running Win98 on the old machine that you had
installed the 10/100 card into. Isn't that the one that you've been installing
all these other drivers into? That's the one that I was talking about when I
mentioned the setup.exe on the 10/100 card's installation CD.

You can do the driver install after recreating a fresh Win98 boot drive also in
exactly the same way, but I was hoping to save you the trouble of the Win98
re-installation.

 

But the way you normally perform the installation from that CD is by

Yes win98 is on the old machine, the new one is XP

I tried a win98 reinstall and managed it, which was a surprise to me as i
have
never done it before!! I had a bit of trouble getting the screen resolution
up
to 600X800 (or whatever) but managed that too.

However I treid running the NIC installation disk but it said something
like "setup.exe requires oleaut32.exe (IIRC) so it wouldn't work.
I seem to remember that oleaut32.exe pops up a bit in problematic area's
anyone know what it does?
Also I could not get broadband to work on it, although it did install
but it couldn't make a connection. (F*** know why :O) ), I guess
BB was not around when the disk was made!!

I have just about given up on it to be honest, although I am learning
quite a bit in the process (learning that I will never succeed -lol).

I need to try and get BB working on it cos everything is out of date
really.

Anyway I have had enough of it for today!!!

 

Hmmmm. There's no such file on any of my systems, including Win98, but I do see
that one by that name gets a lot of press as a trojan. It's hard to see how you
could have something like that on a fresh install, but who knows.

What my Win98 does have is a oleaut32.dll in the windows/system folder and it
has a newer date which leads me to believe that it might have come on the
install disk when I was doing exactly what you are attempting with a 10/100 card
under Win98 last year. I'll make a copy available to you if yours is missing.
Aha! in fact I see a copy that I was shipping special to the Win98 machine a
year ago, so I must have had problems at that time also and done the research,
but can't recall them now. I've put it up temporarily for you to download if you
choose.
http://home.comcast.net/~robheil/OLEAUT32.DLL (case sensitive to download)
It goes in C:\Windows\system

That pretty much follows if the install failed.

 

I mean oleaut32.dll which may in cab number 14, win14.cab,
have read references to visual basic and that the file is always in use.
(which maybe the prob), It is wanted by the card instalation disk
not by windows install, windows is install OK(ish).

oops just read that tooo late!!!

Thanks I amsuer i have one kicking around somoewhere myself (on the
former installation).

 

This is all ridiculous. You only needed the two bare files,
and when windows detects a network card, to point it to
them. Installing a network card on a new windows
installation (or any that hasn't been damaged somehow) takes
approximately 10 seconds.

 

Well I have sorted out the oleaut32.dll problem, or at least
it seems to have sorted itself out somehow but anyway I
could run the setup program, however it came up with the
same old problelm of not finding the drivers. However although
it was a fresh install of windows I may have screw it up a bit
by trying to install the card manually when the set-up program
would not run. I really don't understand it. Everything is so
inconsistant. I am pretty sure that the oleaut32.dll was there
all the time, as I understand it it is always in use and you would
have to boot to msdos to changeit anyway. Very confusing.
I think the setup program just takes a look at you system so
it can determine the correct two files (as you call them)
the driver (.sys) and the .inf file, which it them copies
to a folder windows/preiinstall, and you are them meant to
point windows to there to get the files, however there are
several files in there (several .sys and several .inf) some seem
to be paired like abc.sys abc.inf, some are not.
Anyway I will have another go at it, I will also to to install
broadband on it which should make things easier if I can connect to
the internet.

 

Well just to extend the farce further I decided to try a different PCI
slot, but being a bit hot I took off my jumper first, (and heard the
crackle of static) anyway I when I put it in (two) different slots
the card was not detected at all. Good I though, I have distroyed the
card completely so this farce is finally over. However unfortunately
when I put it back in it's original slot it was detected again and the
installation seemed to through like a dream, drivers found etc,
installation complete, reboot computer to finish.
However when i rebooted and looked in the the device manager
it said "The device loaders, ndis.vxd and ntkern.vxd could not
load the device driver". I noticed there was no ntkern.vxd in /system
so I copied a copy in but I still got the same message when I reinstalled
things. I wish I had destroyed the card because al it gives me is grief.


Actually I just googled the error message and the same problem is described
here:-
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1108306222

It sounds like it has been resolved (for the poster) but I have not
read it all yet, I don't have the energy. I expect will not work for
me but I will give it a go later.

 

DRUMROLL..........................SUCCESS!!!

I finally managed to install the driver.
The solution? Upgrade to W98SE. All I I did was install my copy
of W98SE over the existing W98, when it finished the installation
the card was reported as OK in the device manager, no yellow
exclaimation mark, driver installed OK.
I don't think W98 supports networkinig like that (local).
Now all I need to do is to get it to 'network' with my other
PC (this one XP), at the moment it is connected with a
crossover cable but this machine reports limited or no
connectivity with a yellow exclamation mark in the system
tray network icon.
Any tips on how to 'get it to do something'?