problem installing NIC on win95 machine

[Kaido]

I'm working on an older engineering computer at work. I just reinstalled Windows 95, which is actually running great. The problem is with the network card. I popped the network card in, a 3com 3C905B-TX PCI card, booted up, and got the new hardware dialog. I walked through it and inserted the first of three driver disks. After installing some files, it asked me to put in the Windows 95 CD, which I did. It's trying to find a file called "rpcltc5.dll" but could not find it on the CD. I ran a search on the CD and driver disks on another computer and was unable to find this file. Earlier I tried the same thing, doing it by hand by pulling the files off other computers, but that didn't work. It searches for various DLL's and VXD's and such. I've never encountered this problem before; does anyone know where I can find these missing files and why they are needed? TIA!

 

[mindless1]

When you move a thread, please link from the old to the new thread. Thank you.

It may be that those files are inside one of the Win95 cabs. I vaguely recall "some" version of Win9x having them in a Net(n).cab (for example. net3.cab) file. You'd browse to it or try to extract them.

Alternatively you could install some patches that may have all (or most) of what's needed, for example the DCOM95 @ MS's 'site. I just checked it and it does contain that file you mentioned, among several others.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mindless1
When you move a thread, please link from the old to the new thread. Thank you.

It may be that those files are inside one of the Win95 cabs. I vaguely recall "some" version of Win9x having them in a Net(n).cab (for example. net3.cab) file. You'd browse to it or try to extract them.

Alternatively you could install some patches that may have all (or most) of what's needed, for example the DCOM95 @ MS's 'site. I just checked it and it does contain that file you mentioned, among several others.

Updated, thanks for the heads up on the linking.

I solved the problem an hour or two ago after spending the morning on it. I ended up upgrading the computer to Windows 98, which I had done last week (had issues tho). So I solved the main bootup issue by copying over vnetbios.vxd to the Windows system folder. Next was the PCI NIC, same problem as 95. What I ended up doing was creating a custom NIC install CD, which consisted of the 3 driver floppies, various vxd's and dll's off of another Win98 install, and all of the extracted files from the Windows 98 install CD's net7.cab, net8.cab, and net9.cab cab files. What a headache! I did try the DCOM stuff after coming across it on a website earlier this morning, but that didn't work. So, I now have a crazy install CD with files from three or four sources that does the job. Oh well Thanks for the reply!