Help with laptop pc card

[Owl]

Have a Toshibia Tecra 8100 running Windows 98 SE. Right now I have a 3Com
FE575C 10/100 LAN CardBus Fast Ethernet card running. A buddy gave me a
Xircom Realport Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 card (RBE-100). I want to use it so
I can get rid of the annoying dongle. I can't get it to install though.
Following the directions is says to have the "New Hardware Wizard" search
the cd-rom for the drivers but, it finds none. I went to the Xircom website
(now owned by Intel) and downloaded the new version of the cd, put it on my
hard drive but, it doesn't find any drivers there either. Anyone help here?
I tried manually digging around the cd and found nothing, I don't understand
why it can't find the drivers on the original cd or the downloaded newer
version of the cd...

Thanks,

Smith

 

[Gary Hendricks]

Hi Owl,

It could be your Windows 98 giving problems. Can you try installing in
a laptop running Windows XP?

I also found this link which you may want to refer to. It describes the
Xircom Realport Cardbus in more detail:
http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7576-12A8ED6C-3942F8ED-prod1

Regards,
Gary Hendricks
http://www.build-your-own-computers.com

 

[Smith]

Yeah, I could, have to wait until Monday though, my only XP laptop is off
with someone right now unfortunately. The 98SE install is fairly new, maybe
I'll try upgrading it to 2000, see if that OS will pick up the driver.

Thanks for the link. Mines the RBE-100 though, not the combo card.
Whatever Toshiba model they had they say the card didn't fit it in the slot,
mine fits in, stupid thing just won't see the drivers. Glad I wasn't given
that one, I might be able to fix the driver trouble, wouldn't be able to fix
it not sliding in right

Thanks!

 

[Quaoar]

Have a Toshibia Tecra 8100 running Windows 98 SE. Right now I have a 3Com
FE575C 10/100 LAN CardBus Fast Ethernet card running. A buddy gave me a
Xircom Realport Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 card (RBE-100). I want to use it so
I can get rid of the annoying dongle. I can't get it to install though.
Following the directions is says to have the "New Hardware Wizard" search
the cd-rom for the drivers but, it finds none. I went to the Xircom website
(now owned by Intel) and downloaded the new version of the cd, put it on my
hard drive but, it doesn't find any drivers there either. Anyone help here?
I tried manually digging around the cd and found nothing, I don't understand
why it can't find the drivers on the original cd or the downloaded newer
version of the cd...

Thanks,

Smith

The file XBE_314-FULL.EXE that you downloaded must be executed after the
download; it copies the files to your C: drive and then immediately
autostarts setup.exe that provides the choice to install software and
tools. **You should not insert the PC Card before this installer has
finished installing the driver.** After this has completed you insert
the PC Card and the driver is found automatically.

Q

 

[Smith]

I did extract the 314 file. Don't recall it auto starting...I'll delete it
all and extract again. Weird though....the directions card that came with
the product says to run the tools and software setup AFTER the drivers
install, not before. Says it should detect them right off the cd (3.06
version shipping with it) Oh well, I'll give it a shot, easier than
upgrading my OS to get it to work.

Thanks.

 

[Quaoar]

I did extract the 314 file. Don't recall it auto starting...I'll delete it
all and extract again. Weird though....the directions card that came with
the product says to run the tools and software setup AFTER the drivers
install, not before. Says it should detect them right off the cd (3.06
version shipping with it) Oh well, I'll give it a shot, easier than
upgrading my OS to get it to work.

Thanks.

Setup.exe can be started manually if necessary. As a last resort, one
of the *.inf files can be used for the installation. The hardware
wizard should have found the correct one, but the files are buried one
level deep C:\xircom\xbe_314\*.* so manually navigating should have let
the wizard find the driver. In any event, do not insert the card during
this process but only later.

Q

 

[Smith]

Okay. Tried it, still doesn't find it. I went ahead and tried to manually
install the adapter, it's not in any inf file extracted. I tried so many of
the ones listed it's not even funny, even though the names didn't match. I
have never had this much trouble installing anything. Screw it though, the
directions say Windows 2000 has a built in driver on it's CD, I'm just going
to freakin upgrade to that.

Smith