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Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) justme Profile Hi, It appears the Warplink drivers are gone from http://www.acerneweb.com/Html/nonshock/consumer.htm does anyone know if the drivers were indeed updated? Thanks 03-05-2001 13:37:16

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile Don't know about that, but they are still here.. http://www.acerneweb.net/Html/support/downloads.shtml http://www.geocities.com/mr_bubba_zanetti/ 03-05-2001 16:24:28

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) Mitchell Profile | Email I spoke on the phone to an acerneweb tech last week. He just discovered that the win2k usb warplink drivers were actually f*cked up (haven't we all known for weeks?). Anyway, he had a guy fixing them and that they were taking the bad ones down. He told me the fixed ones would be up early this week (march 5-9). We shall see. The warplinks run great on win9x, but it sucks that I have to dual boot and run win98 on my main machine in order to stream to the iopener. Hope they fix it soon. 03-05-2001 23:25:54

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile Thanx for the info! 03-06-2001 06:42:43

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile New Drivers posted 3-13-01.....please report any info. http://www.acerneweb.net/Html/support/downloads.shtml 03-14-2001 19:17:46

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile CRAP....I down-loaded these newest drivers (Win98). They won't install...as soon as I click setup, I get an error message about a missing language file in setup.lid. What's with these drivers? I never could get the previous down-loaded drivers to install, even after re-naming a number of files. What's with these file name problems? Is it the unpacker program that's screwing up the names? What a bunch of crap.... 03-15-2001 04:35:59

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) dermot Profile | Email I got the same error installing Win95/98 on ME. 03-15-2001 05:49:15

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) JohnQPyro Profile Just downloaded the New/New 3-13 Warplink USB Drivers for Win2K. The install went A-OK, but after Restart my system indicated that the PACKET DRIVER was not installed, and offered a dialog box that explained how to do this. I followed it to the letter, but when attempting to load it, I recieved the following error. "The specified Location does not contain information about your hardware". Has anyone else had this problem, and has anyone successfully installed these drivers..?? Thanks JohnQPyro 03-15-2001 10:37:33

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile OK...here's some good news. I got these new drivers for Win98 working on a Win98 and a WinME machine. I haven't tried them on an I-Opener yet. Here's what I had to do....I removed the file named setup.lid from the new driver install package. I then substituted the file of the same name off the original warplink cd into the new driver package. Then the install went ok on both machines. Everything's running ok now....I transferred a few files of about 5mb both ways...works ok. The transfer speed is about 280kbs(?), slow but ok.I don't have any final opinion of these new drivers yet...still have to put them on an I-Opener. More to come.... 03-15-2001 18:31:08

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile I need to add one more thing about these new drivers...If you have ever installed any warplink drivers before on your machine, be sure to run the warplinker.exe program before installing the new drivers. (It's in the new driver package) This will remove the previous Warplink utility and all traces of the old drivers. My previous Warplink install would frequently find new hardware on each reboot....that behaviour has not happened yet with these new drivers. My fingers are crossed.... 03-16-2001 04:34:50

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Too bad....The new drivers with the mentioned modification installed ok on a Win98 I-Opener, but still have problems. Info coming into the I-Opener , mp3s, files, etc., is ok. However, when I try to move anything out of the I-Opener, the other computer immediately crashes. This is very similar to the symptoms using the previous driver. This is also hard to figure. My USB setup on the I-Opener is now working fine. USB cordless mouse, USB speakers, USB cdrom....everything works. Why the transfer of files , info, out of the I-Opener causes problems, while stuff coming in is ok...go figure. This is probably related to the VIA/USB concerns. Hopefully a new VIA driver will fix this continuing problem. 03-17-2001 04:17:30

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) mp3boombox Profile | Email I'm going to have to do some searching but i rember someone got the IO working great with the worp link. From what i rember it had something to do with changing some settings in the network option's. They where incorrect, and the problem was that with out fixing the settings the IO was sending data with or with out a few bits of data per packet. There for causing the computer to crash on the other end. But in any case it had something to do with an incorrect settings somewheres. When i get around to it I'll try looking around for any settings fixes on my warplinks. 03-18-2001 08:48:04

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile Some notes to help in the troubleshooting process On my desktop it works great with win98se and winME. On my laptop it works great with win98se On the Iopener it 'goes bad' after about hour (winME). However on the Iopener a Linksys ethernet adapter (also usb) works fine nonstop for days. 03-18-2001 09:51:24

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? ( or, What The Hell Are You Smoking Boy?) (modified 0 times) Gultig Profile If anyone would care to do an actual diff from the last version posted to this one, they would see that nothing has changed between the two. Unless, of course, you consider that adding CR/LFs to the ini files (try opening them with WordPad to view them correctly) and correcting the long file names to be a change that would effect software!!?? Baffled, or should I say Gaffled! :D :p Gultig 03-18-2001 11:42:15

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Good news...I got the new drivers(they are different) working on my I-Opener. Here's the sequence of network setting changes: Control panel, network, warplink, advanced, change the country property from Europe to USA(apparently Europe was the default) Reboot. Control panel, system, devive manager, usb controllers, Via controllers, properties, advanced, uncheck disable USB error dection (checked was the default). These were the only two changes I made. Now I have been transferring data into and out of the I-Opener without any trouble. MP3s on the I-Opener now play fine on the other two computers I have the warplink adaptors on, Win98 and WinME. Whether this setup will continue without problems remains to be seen. I'm satisfied with the performance now. I measured the network performance using NetMedic...it returns a data transfer rate of about 280kps. This is about 5 times as fast as a 56k modem....not too bad. 03-18-2001 11:58:36

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) zyxw Profile | Email Ok I'm slow off the gate. However, thought it was worth reporting the following... the new W2K drivers for the Acer Warplink seem to work better than the old drivers (note not perfectly, but better, install is still not quite right the packet.inf is screwed up and you need to recover the older packet.inf which doesn't appear to me to be on their website to get it to install on W2K). I'm using MS Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) working on a Windows 2000 (w2k) professional (I-opener) and a mix of Win 98 and W2K I-Opener clients ... all working pretty happily at the moment. My maximum sustained (for 60MB) download speed is slightly over 51KB/sec (not great, but still not entirely bad... this through a single wireless hop). Which I guess isn't too bad considering this was measured on a W98SE machine to the W2K machine which itself is using a SMC USB ethernet to get to the Linksys router... I really want to thank everyone here, I bought a total of 3 pairs of these puppies at a cost of around $30 a pair permitting wireless connection around my home. I do have a question, should I put the good packet.inf up at the f r e e d r i v e site? It may be a bit overly esoteric... anyway thanks all! 03-23-2001 02:45:16

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) JohnQPyro Profile zyxw, Yes, Please !!! If you would post the Packet.inf to the ######### account that would ROCK !!!! Thanks JohnQPyro 03-23-2001 10:41:16

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) Gultig Profile OMG! You really don't want to believe that they pulled the wool over your eyes do you????? Ok, everyone has this utility, so I'll make it simple for you all to follow along. You'll still have to do a little bit of work though. First thing is to make a copy of all of your ini files in your new warplink drivers directory, and add a "2" to the end of the filename ( ex: Warplink.inf -> Warplink2.inf ). Then open each of the copies in word pad, and do nothing but click on the diskette ico to save them. You will get a warning about saving it as "text-only", just click on yes. Now copy the listing for fcWarp.bat at the bottom of this post, and make a batch file on your system. Now, assuming that you have both the old and new set of drivers in 2 different directories, run the batch file with 2 parameters - The first one being the new drivers folder path and the second being the older ones. ( ex: fcWarp.bat C:\warplinkNewMyAss C:\warplinkOldPOSDrivers ) Remember, if you don't have the drivers in 8.3 compliant folders, you'll prolly need qoutes around each of the path parameters. For the obviously lazy people in this forum who did not care to compare the files the first time I suggested it but insisted that the files were different, here are the results of the first 2 files that will be made in the directory the batfile is located. Cheers, Gultig Contents of Binary.txt: BINARY FILE COMPARE RESULTS Comparing files E:\WARP\WARP2K\PACKET.SYS and E:\DRIVERS\WARP2K\PACKET.SYS FC: no differences encountered Comparing files E:\WARP\WARP2K\WarpLink.sys and E:\DRIVERS\WARP2K\WARPLINK.SYS FC: no differences encountered Comparing files E:\WARP\WARP2K\WarpLinkER2K.exe and E:\DRIVERS\WARP2K\WARPLINKER2K.EXE FC: no differences encountered Comparing files E:\WARP\WARP2K\WarpLinkER98.exe and E:\DRIVERS\WARP2K\WARPLINKER98.EXE FC: no differences encountered Comparing files E:\WARP\WARP2K\WarpUSBL.sys and E:\DRIVERS\WARP2K\WARPUSBL.SYS FC: no differences encountered Comparing files E:\WARP\WARP2K\WarpUSBm.sys and E:\DRIVERS\WARP2K\WARPUSBM.SYS FC: no differences encountered Contents of ASCII(WP).txt: ASCII (Saved with wordpad) FILE COMPARE RESULTS Comparing files E:\WARP\WARP2K\WarpUSBL2.inf and E:\DRIVERS\WARP2K\WARPUSBL.INF FC: no differences encountered Comparing files E:\WARP\WARP2K\WarpUSB2.inf and E:\DRIVERS\WARP2K\WARPUSB.INF FC: no differences encountered Comparing files E:\WARP\WARP2K\WarpLink2.inf and E:\DRIVERS\WARP2K\WARPLINK.INF FC: no differences encountered Comparing files E:\WARP\WARP2K\PACKET2.INF and E:\DRIVERS\WARP2K\PACKET.INF FC: no differences encountered Contents of fcWarp.bat: ECHO BINARY FILE COMPARE RESULTS > Binary.txt fc /b %1\PACKET.SYS %2\PACKET.SYS >> Binary.txt fc /b %1\WarpLink.sys %2\WarpLink.sys >> Binary.txt fc /b %1\WarpLinkER2K.exe %2\WarpLinkER2K.exe >> Binary.txt fc /b %1\WarpLinkER98.exe %2\WarpLinkER98.exe >> Binary.txt fc /b %1\WarpUSBL.sys %2\WarpUSBL.sys >> Binary.txt fc /b %1\WarpUSBm.sys %2\WarpUSBm.sys >> Binary.txt ECHO ASCII (Saved with wordpad) FILE COMPARE RESULTS > ASCII(WP).txt fc /w %1\WarpUSBL2.inf %2\WarpUSBL.inf >> ASCII(WP).txt fc /w %1\WarpUSB2.inf %2\WarpUSB.inf >> ASCII(WP).txt fc /w %1\WarpLink2.inf %2\WarpLink.inf >> ASCII(WP).txt fc /w %1\PACKET2.INF %2\PACKET.INF >> ASCII(WP).txt ECHO ASCII FILE COMPARE RESULTS > ASCII.txt fc /w %1\WarpUSBL.inf %2\WarpUSBL.inf >> ASCII.txt fc /w %1\WarpUSB.inf %2\WarpUSB.inf >> ASCII.txt fc /w %1\WarpLink.inf %2\WarpLink.inf >> ASCII.txt fc /w %1\PACKET.INF %2\PACKET.INF >> ASCII.txt 03-25-2001 09:26:28

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) zyxw Profile | Email Gultig, Hey, how the heck are ya? Great, now please lets not get into a pissing fight... we're on the same side, eh? First, on a DIR, the packet.inf from the old drivers looks a lot like this on my system... PACKET INF 3,009 08-25-00 9:10a PACKET.INF the DIR for the packet.inf from the new drivers looks like ... PACKET INF 2,918 03-08-01 11:40a PACKET.INF Just on a DIR they're not identical... install doesn't work for packet.inf on the new drivers, however if you open em up, they have the same content, the packet.inf for the new drivers was saved in a rich text (or some other slightly compressed) format.... it's not pure ascii text... you can edit via wordpad, select all, copy and paste into say notepad then save a valid copy of packet.inf suitable for installing... they have the same text, but aren't the same due to compression in the newer drivers version. They expand in a word processor to the same stuff! Next, onto a brief discussion of my warplink experiences... 1) The position of the warplink driver in the usb when changed appears to really adversely affect it under Windows 2000... to the point that W2K doesn't ever boot sucessfully... the solution/workaround is either static USB ports or addition of the warplink device after boot. 2) Once installed and running the stuff is great! Now please, lets be nice to each other Regards 03-25-2001 19:27:02

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) Mitchell Profile | Email so, zyxw - did you get them working 100% under win2k? I have been too afraid to try. My first attempt worked fine as long as win2k was running, but with the warplink plugged in, win2k would blue screen at startup. did you happen to post the .inf file on freedrive? Could you email it to me?? If anyone cares to contact acer neweb about this: Randy F. Acer NeWeb Technical Support Specialist http://www.acerneweb.net 1-800-733-2237 ext. 2790 <<--"Toll free hassle them number!" Fax 408-576-1681 04-08-2001 16:21:14

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) JohnQPyro Profile Has anyone had any luck in getting the Acer Warplink wireless stuff to work w/ Windows 2000 yet..?? JohnQ 05-02-2001 12:10:03

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) zyxw Profile | Email Hi, I gave up and went with a DWL-120 802.11b USB adapter from D-Link connecting to a Linksys combination wireless/switch cable/dsl router. The D-Link works flawlessly, the Linksys has trouble with WEP enabled and streaming, however works great without WEP. Linksys unlike Acer appears to improve networking products over time. I had some luck with the Acer, but not enough to hand it over to less technical family members... sigh.. the cost of course for the DWL-120 (about $114 plus shipping) is a lot greater than for the Acer devices. Good luck! 05-03-2001 10:08:24

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile These Warplink things are the most useless devices I ever bought...I can see why they gave them away so cheap. They seem to work ok right after installed, but keep having more and more problems the longer they are hooked up. My Compaq desktop now refuses to even boot if one is attached....but it will work fair if attached after Windows loads. The poor I-openers refuse to transmit reliably no matter what (Win98, WinME). I suspect the things are drawing too much current for the USB port. Mine are parked, waiting for new drivers....not holding my breath though. 05-03-2001 16:20:14

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) justme Profile I ran a 350kb feed from BBC via microsofts mediaplayer for 12 hours using a d-link dwl-120 usb 802.11b ethernet adapter, 0 packets lost, 0 late. 0 crashes under W2K... this caused me to entirely give up on the Acer Warplink and generally to avoid Acer... 05-03-2001 21:01:34

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) parasyght Profile | Email Mine seems to work ok, i can play starcraft for hours on and nothing happens to the warplink connection. It seems to work fine most of the time. Occasionally i get dropped from the internet, but if i unplug it and plug it back in it works fine. I dont have anyupdated drivers either. Although it seemed to take along time to get it to work properly. 05-05-2001 12:38:15

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile I played with the warplink quite a while on the Iopener and a laptop. I wanted a MP3 jukebox type thing with all the files on my desktop. I never had a problem using warplink with the laptop. But the Iopener seemed to get bandwith clogged, then would lose the Warplink until it was unplugged and replugged. I had the same problem printing. usually no problem surfing. A different USB NIC on the Iopener could do everything. So that tells me the driver is the problem, or some conflict between the driver and windows...like when you use a win3.1 driver in a win98 machine... 05-05-2001 21:11:58

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) apaulo Profile | Email There is a version dated 5-15-2001 up on the site now. All the files are labeled 7-4-00. 05-19-2001 08:17:05

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile All of the links to these new drivers(?) seem to be dead. Anybody got these drivers yet? If so, where? 05-21-2001 03:24:57

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) Gultig Profile It looks as if the acerneweb.net site was taken down, so find the drivers here: http://www.acerneweb.com/support/download.htm I am downloading this new version as I type. Gultig 05-21-2001 18:13:51

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile These are different drivers... kind of funny, because a few words are mispelled on the program (like Europe) however I have been testing it for a few hours now. mine used to lose contact with the host and cause other errors. Now it still sometimes loses contact with the host, but if I wait a few minutes it comes back on its own without any errors. I also have the fixusb program in mine. http://www.geocities.com/mr_bubba_zanetti/ 05-28-2001 13:30:59

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile YouBecha....I tried these new drivers also, with pretty much the same results as before....bad. The reason I think we might have a power issue with these devices is my experience with my Compaq desktop. Sometimes when I try to boot-up with the warplink plugged in, the computer hangs up on the initial Compaq splash screen....not always however. In order to boot, I must unplug the warplink. If I attach the warplink after the Compaq boots, nothing crashes. My impression here is the line supplying current to the USB port is being overloaded slightly by the Warplink, particularly during the boot. This slight current overload while the Warplink is in use would explain the erratic behaviour. My I-Openers always boot with the warplink attached, but sometimes the drivers don't load. Hard to figure....I guess you get what you pay for.... 05-28-2001 14:56:47

RE:Updated Warplink drivers?? (modified 0 times) parasyght Profile | Email i had the same problem until i installed windows ME. Seriouse! and the real time dos mode patch does work! 05-28-2001 16:44:32

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