On a winxp w/sp2 & ~770 meg memory, installing a Trendnet tew-621pc pmcia
type card doesn't work. The failure in the "found new hardware" scripts says
that the file/driver wasn't found AFTER it copies the driver to the
windows/system32/drivers directory. The driver doesn't have the windows
sig approval/whatever. What else would be needed?

I needed to install the genuine win junk because of a need to get a couple
files & updates onto my desktop some time back.

Have read that vista doesn't allow installation of non-win sig drivers & wonder
if it now holds true for winxp as well with the "genuine" win trojan.

Would even be more nicer if there is a means the user can get winxp to
load/run the device driver via a manual setup...

student wrote:
> On a winxp w/sp2 & ~770 meg memory, installing a Trendnet tew-621pc
> pmcia
> type card doesn't work. The failure in the "found new hardware"
> scripts says that the file/driver wasn't found AFTER it copies the
> driver to the windows/system32/drivers directory. The driver
> doesn't have the windows
> sig approval/whatever. What else would be needed?
>
> I needed to install the genuine win junk because of a need to get a
> couple files & updates onto my desktop some time back.
>
> Have read that vista doesn't allow installation of non-win sig
> drivers & wonder if it now holds true for winxp as well with the
> "genuine" win trojan.
>
> Would even be more nicer if there is a means the user can get winxp
> to load/run the device driver via a manual setup...

There should be nothing preventing you from installing "unsigned drivers".

Please give us the exact text of whatever message you are seeing.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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lets see if I got this right...you paid for and installed a Clean&repair
program and your computer crashed...
So you went and bought a new computer and now you want to put the same
Clean&repair program on the new computer even though it did not "repair"
anything???......... but by god!! you paid for it and damn if your not gonna
use it.!!............
ever hear the expression there's a sucker born every minute........
peter
"student" <guest@csus__.edu> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On a winxp w/sp2 & ~770 meg memory, installing a Trendnet tew-621pc pmcia
> type card doesn't work. The failure in the "found new hardware" scripts
> says
> that the file/driver wasn't found AFTER it copies the driver to the
> windows/system32/drivers directory. The driver doesn't have the windows
> sig approval/whatever. What else would be needed?
>
> I needed to install the genuine win junk because of a need to get a couple
> files & updates onto my desktop some time back.
>
> Have read that vista doesn't allow installation of non-win sig drivers &
> wonder
> if it now holds true for winxp as well with the "genuine" win trojan.
>
> Would even be more nicer if there is a means the user can get winxp to
> load/run the device driver via a manual setup...

whoops..........ignore......replied to wrong post
sorry
peter
"peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:xTp4j.83830$cD.77461@pd7urf2no...
> lets see if I got this right...you paid for and installed a Clean&repair
> program and your computer crashed...
> So you went and bought a new computer and now you want to put the same
> Clean&repair program on the new computer even though it did not "repair"
> anything???......... but by god!! you paid for it and damn if your not
> gonna use it.!!............
> ever hear the expression there's a sucker born every minute........
> peter
> "student" <guest@csus__.edu> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On a winxp w/sp2 & ~770 meg memory, installing a Trendnet tew-621pc pmcia
>> type card doesn't work. The failure in the "found new hardware" scripts
>> says
>> that the file/driver wasn't found AFTER it copies the driver to the
>> windows/system32/drivers directory. The driver doesn't have the windows
>> sig approval/whatever. What else would be needed?
>>
>> I needed to install the genuine win junk because of a need to get a
>> couple
>> files & updates onto my desktop some time back.
>>
>> Have read that vista doesn't allow installation of non-win sig drivers &
>> wonder
>> if it now holds true for winxp as well with the "genuine" win trojan.
>>
>> Would even be more nicer if there is a means the user can get winxp to
>> load/run the device driver via a manual setup...
>
>

On 2007-12-02, Shenan Stanley <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> student wrote:
>> On a winxp w/sp2 & ~770 meg memory, installing a Trendnet tew-621pc
>> pmcia
>> type card doesn't work. The failure in the "found new hardware"
>> scripts says that the file/driver wasn't found AFTER it copies the
>> driver to the windows/system32/drivers directory. The driver
>> doesn't have the windows
>> sig approval/whatever. What else would be needed?
>>
>> I needed to install the genuine win junk because of a need to get a
>> couple files & updates onto my desktop some time back.
>>
>> Have read that vista doesn't allow installation of non-win sig
>> drivers & wonder if it now holds true for winxp as well with the
>> "genuine" win trojan.
>>
>> Would even be more nicer if there is a means the user can get winxp
>> to load/run the device driver via a manual setup...
>
> There should be nothing preventing you from installing "unsigned drivers".
>
> Please give us the exact text of whatever message you are seeing.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP

After copying the device drive, rt2860.sys to the windows/system32/drivers
directory, the following msg popped up.....I didn't include the picture....

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cannot install this hardware

trendnet tew-621pc wireless n pc card

an error occured during the installation of the device

the system cannot find the file specified
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