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| Thread ID: 32937 | 2003-05-02 03:54:00 | freakin lan card | Ron Bakker (356) | Press F1 |
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| 140697 | 2003-05-02 03:54:00 | I have wasted a lot of gaming time trying to install a pcmcia 3com megahertz 10mbs lan card model:3cce589et. After downloading the driver from 3 com I then installed it but it keeps on asking for my win98 cd, so I do then it says can't find a particular folder. My cd is not scratched. Right now I am jumping up & down infrustration like a kid who's not getting lollies. Some times second hand might not be a good idea. Think i need a rest from trademe"Sigh" P.S All that info on setting up a network was good stuff. Cheers guys. If I could just sort out this freakin card. |
Ron Bakker (356) | ||
| 140698 | 2003-05-02 03:59:00 | It might be that it's the PC Card software which is the problem. Or lack of it. Is this the first time you've tried to use a PCMCIA card? | Graham L (2) | ||
| 140699 | 2003-05-02 05:01:00 | Hi When youre booting up the "Windows has found new hardware" dialogue pops up, right. And you have already extracted the 3com drivers to a handy folder or put them on a disk. When windows asks where to look: Floppy, CDROM, Local HDD or select location/browse, point it at the drive with the disk or click browse and select the folder you saved the drivers in. You might have drill down a through a few sub folders untill the OK button becomes active ie. its found what its looking for. If your running win98 there should be a win98 or 9x folder to look inand maybe other options that don't relate specifically to your card. If youve aready done the above please post back. HTH Murray P PS. You could also try canceling the istallation at the start point and install the drivers from Control Panel > System > Device manager > YourDevice > Update Drivers. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 140700 | 2003-05-02 05:05:00 | when it says it can't find the folder click browse (if its there) and manually navigate until you find a file with the same name. check folders like c:\windows, c:\system, etc sounds dodgy but it worked when i installed my audigy. |
Dylan (800) | ||
| 140701 | 2003-05-02 05:08:00 | Hi Just re read your post. What folder is it looking for on the win CD? Can you find it by exploring the CD? Where are your drivers installed to? With some cards, particularly modem and ethernet I have found that they sometimes take a few goes to install properly (don't know why). So starting from scratch including removing and reseating often helps. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 140702 | 2003-05-02 19:49:00 | The guy who I bought it of reconds he will give me a different pcmcia card. Which is cool but on another weekend when I don't have a life I will try this one again just for learning sake. I did try looking manually but a lot of the files were zipped. I'll try again in a week or so. |
Ron Bakker (356) | ||
| 140703 | 2003-05-02 20:27:00 | > I did try looking manually but a lot of the files were zipped . I'll try again > in a week or so . That's most likely the problem . Windows Setup can't get into ZIP Files, so you have to extract them and then run setup . I would strongly reccomend extracting the files to your desktop, because that way it is a whole lot easier . Now click Start > Settings > Control Panel > System Click on the device manager tab Expand either the PCMCIA or Network tree and your NIC should be listed, it may have an exclamation mark on it If there is a yellow exlamation mark on it or something like that then select it and click Properties . Somewhere in the window that pops up, it will ask for you to change a driver - just follow the onscreen instructions and you will be fine If that doesn't fix your problem (ie the NIC/PCMCIA card is ok), the get back into the Control Panel and click Network this time While your in here, setup your network protocols/ip addresses/computer name/workgroup as necessary and then click OK - the Windows 98 CD will now be needed . It will complain about the inability to find some files, so click Browse . Now put the Windows 98 CD in your CD drive, and in t he Browse box select your CDROM drive, on the directory listing that pops up, select the WIN98 (or something like those lines) directory and then just click OK - the files in that directory are not zip files . These are CAB files and WindowsSetup can read cab files so you should be ok . Windows Setup should continue and you should be fine CyberChuck |
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