Netgear Eathernet Card /Win 98 insallation

[oldlefty]

This may be more Windows than net, but here goes:

I was installing a Netgear ethernet card in my daughter's college machine yesterday. After restart Windows went looking for drivers. I had the Netgear disk in A, but windows wanted me to put the Win 98 2nd Ed. CD in. I did that and Windows still couldn't find the 20 or so drivers and files it was looking for. So I stepped through all those files.

Upon reatart I got a series of "registry or system.ini" errors looking for 3 files. I think the registry got changed before it couldn't find the files (.vxd?) to install, so it looks for those files and can't locate them?

Curiously, if I look in Hardware or Device Manager, it shows the ethernet card installed without any red or yellow issues.

What's the best way out? Should I manually go in and eliminate those lines? Where would they be located? Or is there an easier way to fix it? Thanks.

[Ghost_Hacker]

Or is there an easier way to fix it?

Proably not, the "vxd" files are proably Windows networking files and not driver files for your nic card, so I would uninstall ( removing the network card should do this) all Windows networking from the "network properties" for this computer, reboot and have Windows reinstall everything.


You never really want to skip files during an installation. So, if that happens, just cancel the install and try to manually install whatever Windows is try to auto install for you.



Good Luck :)

[Rick]

One More thing having had to deal with a few netgear cards myself in the past
When the install looks on the win98 cd and does not find a file
use the selection window and manually point to the netgear disk for them.
The files may be in a subdirectory /subfolder so till it finds the correct file keep looking

[oldlefty]

Problem solved. On Google searches I found posts about correcting this. Uninstalling the Microsoft Client software and then reinstalling did the trick.

Now a follow-up problem/question. I configured the ethernet LAN stuff in the Network- TCP/IP ssection of Control Panel as suggested by my daughter's college network process. I put in the IP address, Gateway, DNS, etc. Now I can't connect with my local service provider via the modem. It dials up OK but won't shake hands. Is that to be expected? (On my laptop I can connect either to the network at work or via modem at home (Win 2000) so it should be possible.)

If you designate an address does that make it impossible for you to get one assigned when dialing up your local service provider? If so is there a way around this?

Thanks.

[Ghost_Hacker]

Each network interface has it's own set of TCP/IP info. In your networking properties page you should see 2 entries that look something like this:


tcp/ip->


There will be one entry for each of your network interfaces. (NIC and Modem) Check the one pointing to your modem and verify that the correct information for your ISP is entered.



Hope this helps :)

[oldlefty]

Thanks. If I look at the networking properties page on that machine there is only one "tcp/ip" line. Do I need to add another and configure it to "dial up" properties? How do I get the modem to look at the one setup and the ethernet card to look at the other?

By the way, I took my daughter to college today and hooked up her machine and we got connected to the LAN with very little problem. I was a proud papa- baby daughter at college and using my first "from scratch" built machine! Life is good (for now...)

[Ghost_Hacker]

By the way, I took my daughter to college today and hooked up her machine and we got connected to the LAN with very little problem. I was a proud papa- baby daughter at college and using my first "from scratch" built machine! Life is good (for now...)



:D


....How do I get the modem to look at the one setup and the ethernet card to look at the other?


The easiest way is to just use the setup software given out by your ISP.

Otherwise you'll need to open your "dial-up networking" icon, find the phone number profile you use to connect to your ISP, right click and choose "properties" from the drop down. On the "networking" tab make sure "tcp/ip" is enabled, then open the "tcp settings" and input the tcp/ip information for your connection. ( Now that I remember, it's here that you'll find that info, not in "tcp/ip->" which only really helps to show that it's been bound to the modem.) Anyway, you may need to call your ISP's support line for help setting up this page and the "Security" page.

[Ghost_Hacker]

strange double post..think I hit the wrong botton somewhere :D