I am working on a PC (Win98) for a friend (and we all know that we shouldn't
be doing that!!! :) and ran across something I have not seen before...
Since the machine had no NIC, I added a Linksys 10/100 adapter so that
DSL Service could be used and then started getting Windows Protection
Errors... I booted into safe mode and saw that
1) The machine had another network driver loading for a HP Card
(Must have been previously removed)
2) Each network adapter (HP & Linksys) also had another entry:
3Com Virtual NIC - DynamicAccess 1.5 ()
where each adapter appeared in parens.
As long as the 3Com Virtual NIC - DynamicAccess 1.5 adapter is loaded for
the
Linksys adapter, I get the windows protection error. I'd like to completely
remove
this, but as the user is not technical, I cannot be sure that it isn't
needed for
something.
Can anyone tell me what this driver is and why it would be loaded? A quick
search
of 3Com and DynamicAccess lead me to believe it might be some type of server
based
imaging solution, but I have no ideas... (Fortunately there is a remove
DirectAccess
v1.5 in add/remove programs, I just need to know what this is used for to be
sure that
I will not break something I am not familiar with that they might be
using...)
Thanks
-Tim
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