From: Edward Mendelson (edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 13:38:15 EDT
Mike,
The driver at http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-42036.html should work,
but only if you COMPLETELY ignore the instructions that IBM gives for
installing it. Here's how to get it installed.
Run the program to extract the files. It won't hurt to run the Setup.exe
program that gets extracted (as IBM says to do), but this will NOT install
the drivers, as you've discovered by yourself. To get the driver installed,
use the Add New Hardware menu in Control Panel. First run Add New Hardware
and let it try to find plug and play devices; click Next when it doesn't find
new devices, or choose whatever option it is that lets you install a device
manually; keep going until you reach "Add New Device" at the top of the list
of devices found; choose Modem from the list of categories; it will try to
find the modem; when it doesn't, choose "Select from list" or something
similar; when the list of manufacturers and modems appears, click Have Disk,
then point to the directory in which you expanded the drivers. The modem you
want will appear, and you can select it. I'm writing this from memory, but
it's easy to get it right once you know what you're looking for.
Let us know if it works!
Edward Mendelson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lingenfelter" <mwl_at_tuckahoe.blwd.k12.pa.us>
To: "Steve C." <stevec50_at_yahoo.com>; "Thinkpad" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 12:44 PM
Subject: RE: A21m: cannot get Intel combo to function under W2K
> What is so aggravating is that I have downloaded all of the IBM driver
> install packages from the support site and I can't get the wizard to
> recognize nor can I force the matter by installing a set of drivers. Very
> aggravating. I have the install rights to XP but with only 64mb of ram
> there is no point, plus the fact that I hve had little experience with XP.
> I just want 1 platform on my network (Eventually).
>
> Everything else worked flawlessly, even the Track point and video drivers.
> argh!
>
> mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve C. [mailto:stevec50_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 12:06 PM
> To: mwl_at_tuckahoe.blwd.k12.pa.us
> Cc: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: A21m: cannot get Intel combo to function under W2K
>
>
> It sounds like you installed W2K successfully and can
> get everything but the modem to work, correct?
> The biggest problem with installing a new OS like W2K
> on laptops is finding drivers for the video, sound and
> modem. If you have been able to get the video and
> sound to work properly you are already ahead of the
> game. W2K is pretty hard to deal with on laptops
> because of lack of support for multimedia devices like
> sound, modems, etc. You would have better luck with ME
> or XP because of more built-in support for more
> devices.
> You will need to have a W2K driver for the modem. If
> there's no driver you can't use it. You'll have to
> toss it out and get another one that comes with
> drivers.
>
> --- Mike Lingenfelter <mwl_at_tuckahoe.blwd.k12.pa.us>
> > I have downloaded all of the files for WIN2K from
> > the support site and have
> > had great success with everything but the Intel
> > combo 56K/100MB
> > modem/Ethernet. I have tried every package that is
> > available from IBM. I
> > have tried different machines, swapped
> > cards...everything that I I can think
> > of to install it. WIN2K refuses to acknowledge it.
> > I have even removed it,
> > rebooted and then reinstalled the hardware. Still
> > no success.
>
>
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