I think I buggered up my nic install

[jakethemuss]

Just got ADSL (yippee), and the 'cable guy' didn't really know what he was doing,
neither did I by the way, so between us we managed to upset win98se.
When I boot up I get the following warnings that these device drivers aren't being loaded...
vnetsup.vxd
vredir.vxd
dfs.vxd
(These messages in dos, I push enter after each warning)
Then it continues loading windows and just after the desktop shows, I get one last little treat,
msnp32.dll is not there (something like that)
(This message is shown in windows)
I have searched my win98 cd, and my c drive and the cd the nic drivers came on but can't find them.
Can anyone offer help please?

 

[SocrPlyr]

those files are located in the cabs that are on the win98se cd(cdromdriveletter:\win98)... you will need to open them up and find the files and extract them
the first 3 u mentioned are found in net9.cab

Josh

 

[SocrPlyr]

i found the last one
net7.cab

good luck

Josh

 

[SocrPlyr]

oh i forgot to mention you have to copy them to the correct folder and all... i can't remember where tho... you'll have to ask someone else sry

Josh

 

[jakethemuss]

You are a legend SocrPlyr, thx alot.
How did you know where they were??
You smart cookie.
I will try them in windows system folder, that couldn't ah heck anything up, surely

 

[jakethemuss]

It worked, thanks Josh

 

[SocrPlyr]

well i knew where they were because i guessed that they would be located in the cabs that we called net... i wish i had a list of where all of them are located... but for now i just check and guess

good to see you got it figured out

Josh

 

[WhatWasIThinking]

I realize that this is already fixed, but just for posterity's sake... I don't think you did anything wrong. When this happened to me I found a bunch of info on usenet about de- and reinstalling the windows networking stuff. I flailed at that for a while and finally got it to work. This seems to be a fairly common problem, but I never found out what actually causes it.