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Gateway 2000 486 Laptop PCMCIA NIC Problems

R

Rainsford

Lifer
Hey all. Just moved into college and I have a problem with my roomate's old Gateway 2000 486 laptop. He purchased a StarTech.com PCMCIA 10/100 NIC and I tried to set it up. I say try because I ran into a little problem. When I put the card in the PCMCIA slot, the PCMCIA monitor detects that there is a card in the slot, but even upon reboot Windows doesn't detect new hardware. Windows 95 by the way. I ran the search for new hardware thing and it came up with nothing. So I tried manually installing the drivers. I've done this a bunch of times and each time the device has an error flag under the device manager (the yellow and black exclamation point) and the error is "device failure". The connection light on the dongle (the thing that connects the network cable to the card for those of you who don't know that particular slang) is on, so I know that the card is getting power, but it just won't work. Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
 
The GW 2000 is pretty long in the tooth. I suspect that you have a new PC card and that it might be Cardbus, and the old Gateway may have the older PCMCIA?
 
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