Network Adapter card woes

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4 total messages Started by Andy Mabbett Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:41

#229

Author: Andy Mabbett
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:41

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I'm having a bot of bother, installing a network adapter card.

I bought it today, second hand, with no documentation. A friend pout it
in his XP machine, which recognised it, immediately, as an:

        Intel(R) PRO 100+ Management Adapter

and in which it worked, perfectly, first time.

I have put it into my Win 98SE machine this evening, and it doesn't seem
to be recognising it, Sometimes it detects new hardware, other times
not, If I try to manually add it, it asks for the manufacturers disk - I
have the drivers, "PRO98MEM.EXE", from the Intel website, but that
installs three files:

        net5599x.inf
        net55a9x.inf
        net8254x.inf

and Windows' "Add Hardware" wizard only seems to want one of them.

If I select one, it them tells me that the device is "plug and play, and
that I should switch off my machine, attach the adapter, and restart my
machine.

Any ideas?
-- 
Andy Mabbett
                "May contain traces of nuts or seeds."

                                (label on a packet of popcorn)

Re: Network Adapter card woes

#230

Author: Conor
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:49

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In article <KTS5UZAdnxN9EwUU@pigsonthewing.org.uk>, 
andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk says...
> I'm having a bot of bother, installing a network adapter card.
> 
> I bought it today, second hand, with no documentation. A friend pout it
> in his XP machine, which recognised it, immediately, as an:
> 
>         Intel(R) PRO 100+ Management Adapter
> 
> and in which it worked, perfectly, first time.
> 
> I have put it into my Win 98SE machine this evening, and it doesn't seem
> to be recognising it, Sometimes it detects new hardware, other times
> not, If I try to manually add it, it asks for the manufacturers disk - I
> have the drivers, "PRO98MEM.EXE", from the Intel website, but that
> installs three files:
> 
>         net5599x.inf
>         net55a9x.inf
>         net8254x.inf
> 
> and Windows' "Add Hardware" wizard only seems to want one of them.
> 
> If I select one, it them tells me that the device is "plug and play, and
> that I should switch off my machine, attach the adapter, and restart my
> machine.
> 
Get the right drivers. Uninstall the card in Device Manager. Shutdown 
computer and remove card. Restart computer without card in and shutdown 
again. Install card again in a different slot if possible and restart 
computer. It'll detect it and ask for drivers.

-- 
_________________________
Conor Turton
conor_turton@hotmail.com
ICQ:31909763
_________________________

Re: Network Adapter card woes

#215

Author: Andy Mabbett
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:15

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In message <MPG.17a13a4b36a152a2989786@news.claranews.com>, Conor
<conor_turton@hotmail.com> writes

>         Intel(R) PRO 100+ Management Adapter

>> I have the drivers, "PRO98MEM.EXE", from the Intel website, but that
>> installs three files:
>>
>>         net5599x.inf
>>         net55a9x.inf
>>         net8254x.inf

>> If I select one, it them tells me that the device is "plug and play, and
>> that I should switch off my machine, attach the adapter, and restart my
>> machine.
>>
>Get the right drivers.

In what way are the above not "the right drivers"? What are?

> Uninstall the card in Device Manager. Shutdown computer and remove
>card. Restart computer without card in and shutdown again. Install card
>again in a different slot if possible and restart computer. It'll
>detect it and ask for drivers.

There is only one free slot.
-- 
Andy Mabbett
                "May contain traces of nuts or seeds."

                                (label on a packet of popcorn)

Re: Network Adapter card woes

#228

Author: Michael Salem
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:52

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> > I'm having a bot of bother, installing a network adapter card.

> Get the right drivers. Uninstall the card in Device Manager. Shutdown 
> computer and remove card. Restart computer without card in and shutdown 
> again. Install card again in a different slot if possible and restart 
> computer. It'll detect it and ask for drivers.

And, if necessary, delete the device database files 
(\windows\inf\drvdata.*) and .INF file(s) relating to the NIC in 
\windows\inf \nd maybe \windows\inf\other (by "delete", I mean "move 
to somewhere where Windows can't find them"; delete if all works 
well).

HTH,
-- 
Michael Salem

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