Re: Way OT: obsolete MS driver resources

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 19:13, you wrote:
> Sony sells recovery CDs for a modest ($15 or so) price. I presume that
> would include all the appropriate drivers. See
> http://ciscdb.sel.sony.com/perl/select-p-n.pl
>

I do have the CD's, though the drivers in question are for Windows ME. I've
gotten other versions of the same drivers from Intel and IBM. They all
install. None of them work. They fail with a very helpful "Device failure:
Try changing the driver for this device. blah blah blah (error code 2)". I
guess wasn't clear about the problem - didn't want to belabor the point. I
know that the danged device works - it works in WinME, Win2K, Red Hat 7.2 and
Knoppix. Just don't know why the stupid thing won't work. Really makes me
appreciate Linux all the more.

Vaughn

> Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Hello again:
> >
> > I wouldn't make this request if I wasn't sort of desparate but -
> > I need to support a legacy product under Win 95. I obtained a CD and
> > installed said obsolete OS in a spare partition of my Sony Vaio notebook.
> > But I'm unable to get the Intel Pro/100 NIC to work, and the NIC is
> > required for the product. (Note: I tried a 3Com PC card adapter and that
> > didn't work either.) Could anybody point me to a good resource that
> > might help me with these kinds of driver issues? Google doesn't have
> > much on stuff that ancient. I am anxious to get this project out of the
> > way and get back to working on a reasonable, open OS.
> >
> > Thanks and apologies,
> > Vaughn
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