bettablue
Veteran Member
I know we'have discussed this previously, but now I have 2 network adapters. One is a 3Com Etherlink #C5098 dated 1995. Drivers for this are supposed to be on the 3com site, but there appears to be something wrong with anything on their site that requires an OS earlier than XP Pro. I have searched Google, and found numerous links for this driver, but they all end up pointing to the same 3com site which then takes me to the HP.com site.
HP really has no business designing anything to do with web design. They are so bad at it.
I was finally brought to a Novell site that had drivers for a lot of older systems. However, I personally could not locate which exact driver I need for the card I have. All of the drivers seem to be small enough to load with a DOS boot disk, and run something link LapLink, but I don't know how to make that happen. I know I need to extract the driver, and associate it to the startup /boot routine by including it in the config.sys and autoexec.bat. But that's all I know. So far I have downloaded all of the driver packets dated around the time my card was. Barring that, I have also downloaded other versions so that one of the driver packets should be included.
Can I get your thoughts on where I need to go to find this? No, I don't just want a simple "Do this", or whatever and have someone send me a copy of their boot disk. No, what I want are some reading materials so I can learn to write the commands and routines I need to include on my boot disk. Once I have that, then I'll try to include the drivers on one of my floppy disks and configure it all from there.
Thanks again. One of these days, I'll end up being a technician, or something.
HP really has no business designing anything to do with web design. They are so bad at it.
I was finally brought to a Novell site that had drivers for a lot of older systems. However, I personally could not locate which exact driver I need for the card I have. All of the drivers seem to be small enough to load with a DOS boot disk, and run something link LapLink, but I don't know how to make that happen. I know I need to extract the driver, and associate it to the startup /boot routine by including it in the config.sys and autoexec.bat. But that's all I know. So far I have downloaded all of the driver packets dated around the time my card was. Barring that, I have also downloaded other versions so that one of the driver packets should be included.
Can I get your thoughts on where I need to go to find this? No, I don't just want a simple "Do this", or whatever and have someone send me a copy of their boot disk. No, what I want are some reading materials so I can learn to write the commands and routines I need to include on my boot disk. Once I have that, then I'll try to include the drivers on one of my floppy disks and configure it all from there.
Thanks again. One of these days, I'll end up being a technician, or something.