Linksys NIC problem

[plebeian]

I am trying to network my new and old pcs together using a pair of Linksys Etherfast nics, but I'm having a hell of a time doing so.

I have tried installing both nics (alternately in the same PC), and while the installation process goes smoothly,
neither nic appears to be working when installed.

Under the win98 device manager, the Etherfast nic shows up with a yellow exclamation circle. When I clink on properties, win98 gives the following for device status:

"Windows stopped responding while attempting to start this device, and therefore will never attempt tostart this device again. (Code 11.)"

Does anyone have any advice? Could both nics be faulty, or am I missing something?

Here's the info on the system I'm using:
va-503+, k6-2 350, win98 se, 32Mb.

Thanks.

 

[cz]

Win98 and Win98SE do not have proper drivers for this card. You need to manually upgrade the driver for them. Also you might want to try a different PCI slot for one of the cards. They don't like to share an IRQ very much.

 

[Supergax]

You should be using the drivers off of linksys's web site. Also make sure you are using the correct drivers, they have different versions of the chipset on the nic, and different version chipsets need different version drivers, they aren't interchangable.

 

[BCYL]

Yes I agree with the answers above... I use Linksys NICs on all computers in my 4 PC LAN, and they all work perfectly. You need to use the drivers that came on the disk with the NIC... Windows default drivers does not work properly...

 

[goldboyd]

along with the other ideas from the guys and supergax above, make sure your in a bus mastering pci slot too