Win98 ethernet driver?

Aero

Aero

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Burgerbob and I have just installed 98se on an old Dell, PII, etc. When 98 asks for the (belkin) ethernet driver, i specify the drive (D, which is the drive i have the driver CD in) and the driver thing for 98 will NOT see the driver. I have copied it into the My Documents folder, didnt find it. I put the driver on a floppy, it didnt find it. WTF??!?!? the manual for the 98 installation on the CD says that 98 should find it no problem, but 98 is having a problem. I also am not sure if i can install the driver for the (suprisingly) built in ethernet port on the mobo, as 98 doesnt see it and im not sure the driver exists anymore. If anyone could help, many thanks.

Burgerbob und Aero
 
Gee having fun with 98 ethernet drivers! You'll probebly have to try repeatedly to go through the add new hardware wizard and keep choosing the manual not autodetect method to select the type of device from the list that comes up. Once you browse to the current driver keep highlighting it. Otherwise places like omegadrivers.net will have to be looked over if none are found at the support site.
 
ha trust me i could give u some interesting stories about old comp hardware that doesn't make any sense! lol
 
Gee you would have to start that up with the old dos man here. :P Even before running dos I was servicing the first notebooks on the market with 30min. or 60min. microcassettes where you wrote the program or loaded prewritten ones from a cassette tape. That's going back a few decades. If you think 98SE is bad try dos, 3.1, or 95 even. :eek: ooooohhh the pain!
 
Hopefully that is referring to the "MS Blonder" there. :P Oh the ooooold Fat16 and Fat32 days... are gaa gaa "gone for good"! :D NTFS does it here. Besides the "pppppainnnn" of getting drivers to stay in. Put Linux on the old klonker there. You'll probably find more drvier support these days for the old boat anchor there.
 
lol i had to learn how to operate a little on dos when i was 10...our comp had win95 and i had my games(Duke Nukem, Golf) on dos...that was fun:D ...now we have that one, another Pentium 486 with win95 with Age of Empires, Rollercoaster Tycoon(original), and...*drum roll* Total Annihilation!! yes thats right! that really old yet suprisingly fun game lol...thats actually the comp i play the most on lol
 
Actually, Aero, we may have to put Linux (Ubuntu) on that poor thing. It might work too, even though i dont know about the scanner and the SCSI stuff.
 
you'd be suprised at what Ubuntu recognizes right outta the box... :P... my Dell laptop is now a dedicated Ubuntu machine, although i'm gonna put Vista on my new lappy...
 
Linux generally only needs 4mb of memory depending on the size and release date of the distro. Newer ones may use more. Gee try running the original 8bit Duke Nukem on an XP machine sometime with DosBox and hear that through a 5.1 surround sound setup! Duke3D did manage to see the opening credits.
 
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