(1) Installation Procedure of NDC SOHOware PCMCIA/ND51XX for Windows 98 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The NDC ND51XX-E PCMCIA adapter driver installation procedure varies depending on whether or not you are installing into a full Windows 98 installation or a Windows 98 Upgrade installation. <Windows 98 Clean Installation> If you are installing the ND51XX-E PCMCIA adapter into a system that has a clean Windows 98 installed, follow Procedure A. If your adapter was already in your PC before you installed the full version of Windows 98, you will not be prompted to install the NDC driver during the installation of Windows 98. Click Start\Settings\Control Panel \System and tab 'Device Manager'. Under 'Other devices', the NDC-Ethernet will be marked with a question mark "?". Select it, click 'Remove' and restart your computer. Then follow Procedure A. <Windows 98 Upgrade Version Installation> If the card is being installed into a Windows 98 system (no matter what version of Windows your Windows 98 was upgraded from), refer to procedure A for installation in a clean Windows 98 environment. If the card was previously installed on a version of Windows that was upgraded to Windows 98, it will still work fine after the upgrade. But you may upgrade the driver by refering to the procedure B. [Procedure A] 1. Power off the notebook computer 2. Insert the ND51XX-E PCMCIA adapter into one of the PCMCIA slots of your PC 3. Turn the power on and boot into Windows 98 4. Windows 98 will show 'NDC-Ethernet' in the Add New Hardware Wizard. Click 'Next' 5. Select 'Search for the best driver' for your device (Recommended), and then click 'Next' 6. Check 'Specify a location' 7. Insert the newest driver diskette into the floppy disk drive. Type 'A:\WIN98', and then click 'Next' 8. A 'Windows driver file search for the device and location of driver' message will appear. The device name will be shown as 'NDC ND5100 PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter' and the driver location as 'A:\WIN98\NETND51.INF'. Click 'Next' 9. Windows 98 will ask you to insert the disk labeled 'SOHOware PCMCIA/ND51XX Adapter Driver Disk'. As the disk was already inserted in Step 8, just click 'OK' 10. In the 'Copying Files' box, type 'A:\WIN98', then click 'OK' 11. Insert the Win98 CD into your CD-ROM drive if requested 12. In the 'Copying Files' box, enter the path of the resource files needed by the installation program, e.g. D:\WIN98, then click 'OK' 13. The 'Add New Hardware Wizard' will indicate the successful installation of the 'NDC ND5100 PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter'. Click 'Finish' 14. Restart the computer to complete the installation [Procedure B] 1. Power off the notebook computer 2. Insert the ND51XX-E PCMCIA adapter into one of the PCMCIA slots of your PC 3. Turn the power on and boot into Windows 98 4. Clicking Start\Settings\Control Panel\System and tab 'Device Manager' 5. Under 'Network Adapters', select the 'NDC ND5100 PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter', click 'Property' and tab 'driver' 6. Click 'Update driver' 7. On the 'Update Device Driver Wizard' box, click 'Next' 8. Click 'Next' again 9. Insert the newest driver diskette for the ND51XX-E into the floppy disk drive. The Windows 98 will search the driver for you in some possible locations. Since the INF file is placed at \WIN98, Windows 98 can not find it automatically. You must specify a location. Check the box before the 'Specify a location' to enable it, enter the path "A:\WIN98" in the 'specify a location' field and click 'Next' 10. The Wizard will find the new driver for the 'NDC ND5100 PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter'. Click 'Next' 11. A 'Windows driver file search for the device and location of driver' message will appear. The device name will be shown as 'NDC ND5100 PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter' and the driver location as 'A:\WIN98\NETND51.INF' 12. Click 'Next' and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation During the installation, Windows 98 might ask for some system files, such as NE2000.DOS. They come with Windows 98 Source (CD-ROM or Diskette). If you have the Windows 98 CD-ROM, insert it and enter the correct path, e.g. 'D:\WIN98' During the installation, Windows 98 might ask for some driver files, such as ND5100.SYS. They come with the newest driver diskette for the ND51XX-E. Re-insert that diskette into the floppy disk drive, then enter the path as 'A:\WIN98' 13. Windows has finished installing the driver updating, click 'Finish' and follow the system instruction to restart your computer. (2) Adding a Windows 98 machine to an existing network ================================================== By default Windows 98 only installs the TCP/IP protocol. If you want a Windows 98 machine to connect to a network without a DHCP server, you should manually modify the TCP/IP settings of all machines on the network. If you don't understand TCP/IP, you have another choice. That is, follow the instruction below to modify the network settings only on the newly added Windows 98 machine: 1. Click Start/Settings/Control Panel. Double-click the Network icon to open the Network dialog box. 2. On the configuration tab, highlight TCP/IP - > NDC ND5100 PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter and then click the Remove button to unbind the TCP/IP protocol from the LAN adapter. 3. Click the Add button. select Protocol and click Add button. Select Microsoft in the left pane, select NetBEUI in the right. Click OK to install the NetBEUI protocol. 4. On being returned to the Network dialog box you should see the NetBEUI protocol has been added to the list in the network component pane. From the Primary Network Login dropdown list choose Client for Microsoft Networks. Click OK. 5. Restart Windows 98.Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
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