I'm having a couple problems with my WebPlayer. I want to run it on a network without the internal laptop drive (DOC only). I installed win98.img from the i-hacked site using a 44 pin adapter and an old desktop drive. It boots up fine. I have a Netgear USB Ethernet adapter I want to use. I needed to install the drivers to the DOC. I had a hell of a time getting the WP to boot from DOC and see the hard drive. I always wants to boot from the drive and gives a "missing file" error regardless of the boot sequence I set up. I finally powered up the drive a few seconds after the WP and the delay seems to work...sometimes, but that's pretty stupid.
It keeps asking for the win 98 disk so I copied the CD over to the drive. But of course it can't find the file it's looking for. Meanwhile the Netgear adapter was missing on the last boot.
Is there an easier way to do this?
Can you boot from DOC and have a slave drive to copy files, etc. to the DOC?
Is "removable device" in the boot sequence the DOC?
Thanks in advance...
01-03-2001 20:06:56
RE:How do I get Netgear Ethernet Adapter working (modified 0 times)
I found 98Lite to be very "funny" with networking. After 2 98lite reinstalls, I couldn't get my networking to work right (with a linksys USB). I finally gave up and installed Win98SE full and now it works fine. I know this doesn't help you since you are running off of the DOC, but it might explain your networking-related issues.
Has anyone out there had success with 98Lite and networking?
jayfive
01-03-2001 22:50:52
RE:How do I get Netgear Ethernet Adapter working (modified 0 times)
I did what you're trying to do last night but I didn't have much trouble so I'm not sure I remeber all the steps. Also I don't know if all that I did was necesary. But I think you should be able to boot from the DOC and still see the HDD if you jumper the hard drive as slave and set the "bootable card" before your hard drive on the boot page of the bios. (select +Hard Drives and press enter to see the choices) I don't think you need to worry about removable media unless you've attached something like a Zip Drive.
It works now. What I did was buy a SMC adapter (SMC2102USB/ETH) and repeat the same process. Voila! Worked right off the bat! I did try the drivers that came with the 98 lite image and it didn't work but that was expected after reading an older post here. I have no idea why the Netgear adapter wasn't working. Perhaps it needed all the win98 files it kept asking for (that I couldn't get to). The SMC adapter works great without the files.
So now I'm running web, mail, etc. in the kitchen off of DOC only and still have access to my drives through the network if I need them. Thanks for the responses.
01-04-2001 18:09:48
RE:How do I get Netgear Ethernet Adapter working (modified 0 times)
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