windoews 98 not detecting ethernet cart 1

[laptophelp]

Hi I have a old sony vaio with windows 98 on it. everything works fine but the laptop can't detect my network card. I have a Xicom Realport Ethernet 10/100+modem 56 REM56G. It's old and out dated but I can't get a LAN connection. I formated a while ago wiht windows 2000 and that o/s detected the ethernet card and i was able to connect on line automatically. But windows 2000 doesn't work that well on my laptop being on mmx technology, so I formated again with windows98. I don't know how to get it to detect the card so i can get online....please help...ask some more questions of u need them to help me out...thanks....

 

[edfair]

How about forcing detection and manually selecting? Not sure if it has native drivers but some that can't be found automatically will install manually.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[SkipCox]

I'm thinkin' you need the proper drivers...try this:

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scr...=Windows*+98+SE&lang=eng&strOSs=18&submit=Go!

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[Rick998]

I agree with SkipCox about the drivers but have slightly different links to use:

Driver only (200k)

http://tinyurl.com/yr8r7m

Full install (6.5Mb)

http://tinyurl.com/ywvlpe

Hope this helps...

 

[laptophelp]

thanks for the reply....I have found the driver and the ethernet card works and i can getr on line with my cable line....but now i have another problem...my internet explorer is having errors on almost every page and says it's perfoming an illegal action and it closes..what is the cause of this....is just this just an outdated and doesn't work anymore...i tried to go to the microsoft internet explorer website to download updates....but my IE has problems with scripts and syntax errors and the page rarely is able to load at all...or if it does load it barely loads, leaving out many words and images...is there a way of solving this problem other than using windows 2000....should i just toss this notebook to the graveyard?....it is from 1998...The reason i ask if there is another way than using windows is cause than when i do format the notebook with 2000 it runs kinda slow cause it's an old notebook.. please reply...thanks

I have a sony vaio 200mhz MMX Technology, 2.0 GB HD, 128 MB ram...

 

[Trevatwork]

Find a cd with Internet explorer 6 on it i know my isp included that on the cd i got with my cable modem for example.
that should fix your problem

Trevor

 

[SkipCox]

I fully agree with Trevor. Loading IE6 should solve the problems.

I have a 486DX75/20Mb laptop w/ 98se/IE5.0 and experience most of the problems you describe. I don't get the illegal action error but other symptoms are the same as your machine.

For me, previous installs of IE6 have eliminated all the problems you describe and it ran just fine on a P133/32Mb laptop...no speed demon but it worked.

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