ne2000sys file

[Jim Keenan]

My daughter's computer running WIN2000 Professional with
legal CD is generating the following message:

Cannot find NE2000SYS File.

She cannot connect to her college network, so she can't
download files that might help, and the college's IT team
doesn't know how to fix it. I am 150 miles away and
probably can't be of much help anyway. Does anyone have
any suggestions? Thanks, in advance. Jim Keenan

 

[Mike D]

If her computer has the standard W2K installation, she
should be able to find the file in driver.cab:
"c:\winnt\driver cache\i386\driver.cab"
The file name is really ne2000.sys, and is used by many
OEM network card vendors that make a Novell compatible NIC.

Use Winzip to extract the file, and copy the file to an
appropriate location, (e.g. c:\winnt\system32).

She may need to go to Device Manager, and update the
driver for her network card. If so, point to the
ne2000.sys file that was extracted.