nOOb question about installing LAN Driver

[Harry P]

Go easy on me... I'm a computer dummy.

I'm trying to add a NIC to an old computer running Windows 98, specifically Linksys Etherfast 10/100 (LNE100TX ver 5.1) into Pentium III 450 Mhz. The computer has no problem finding the hardware, but when I attempt to install the driver software, it asks that I insert the original Windows 98 cd-rom to pull a dozen or more .dll files, which it can not find and kicks me out of the wizard. Calling Linksys support was worthless.

The computer was shipped new back in the day with OEM Windows 98 already loaded. Do I need a different cd-rom? I was thinking of running sfc to see if I couldn't extract each .dll file one by one, but didn't have the chance. Any thoughts here, or should I return it and buy a different LAN card? Which one?

 

[tractorboy]

just remember everybody in computers started the same place you are.

So I take it you do not have a windows cd ?

The files you need may already be on your pc. they will be in a folder called
" cabs " and it's location is \\windows\options\ ...it is a sub folder of options
it is normally hidden , so you will have to turn off hide sytem files

Open My Computer.

Select the View menu and click Folder Options.

Select the View Tab.

In the Hidden files section select Show all files.

Click OK.
..and there is another one too ...for system files , you want to see system files

then open windows explorer and navigate to \\windows\options \cabs
if you have that, when you install the NIC , just point the install program to c:\windows\options\cabs