Re: Way OT: obsolete MS driver resources

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 14:24, you wrote:
> I don't know, Vaughn. My fiance told me about the Sony site. Now she
> says it could have been HP or IBM (she was visiting all 3 sites the
> night before). The Sony site does appear to have device drivers for W95
> for some models. I presume you've entered your model info at the Sony
> site to see what they have (and what they don't). If Sony doesn't have
> it and neither does driverguide.com, I don't know anything else to suggest.
>

I gave up on getting the NIC to work on the Sony. :-( Just spent the whole
afternoon getting an old salvage system running, and I think that'll work for
me. (Good thing I'm such a pack-rat. In the few months I bought one old PC
at a rummage sale and found three abandoned on the curb. From mixing and
matching I made two working systems out of them. The first one I bought a
scope card for and made a PC oscilloscope out of it. They're both god-awful
slow but at least I have uses for them.) Thanks anyway, everyone, for the
suggestions.

Vaughn

> Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > 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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