Kevin -

Thanks, your suggestion worked like a charm...

Further hiccups past intalling the PCI adapter involved  having windows
not be able to find the Orinoco driver on my CD - this I just downloaded
from their site though, and not realizing that I had to relase my existing
ethernet connection and figuring out such a change would not take effect
until after a restart.

But the box is on line now so it's all good.

Thanks again,
Fred



On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Kevin M. Agard wrote:

> Somewhere on your machine (probably somewhere under the \windows\ directory)
> there should be a directory with a great many .cab files. Locate that
> directory and remember it for later.
>
> Then go into device manager (Right click on "My Computer" and choose
> "Properties", Find and REMOVE/DELETE the adapter. Reboot the machine and PnP
> should "find" the adapter again. Go through the install process again and at
> the point where it asks you for the Windows CD, point it at that .cab
> directory you located earlier.
>
> If that fails, you'll need to borrow a Windows CD.
>
>
>
>
> Fred Gerson wrote:
> >
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > I've been trying to get a Windows 98 box onto my home wireless nework
> > but I've run into some trouble early. I've installed an orinoco PCI
> > adapter but I think I messed things up when going through the wizard to
> > install the drivers. At the very end of the wizard it asked me to install
> > a Windows 98 Install disk, which is something I do not have (all system
> > sofware for this HP Pavillion machine came on a special HP Pavillion
> > disk). The wizard then gave me the option of finding these files on my
> > drive or skipping over their installation. In my wizdom I  chose to skip
> > over their installation - obviously a mistake because I cannot see the
> > adapter at all.
> >
> > Can someone please help me out...
> >
> > Is there another way for me to install a PCI adapter driver besides when
> > Windows first recognizes the adapter as new hardware?
> > Do I need to obtain a Windows 98 Install disk to intall a PCI adapter
> > driver?
> > Should I go through the setup wizard again? If so, how?
> >
> > Any advice/suggestions would be much appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Fred
> >
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