Mn730 adapter and Win98

I have a computer that has three bootable partitions. 2
of them are Win98 and one is WinXP. I cannot install the
mn730 PCI adapter in any of the Win98 partitions. It
keeps telling me that it cannot find it.
When I follow the Wizard instructions, at one point it
tells me to shut down, install the adapter and resume.
When I do that, as soon as Windows loads, it detetcs the
Adapter, asks me to Insert the WIndows CD, it intalls the
drivers, then the Wizard quicks in and it fails. Then, if
I reboot, Windows tells me that the adapter is not
working properly!

But, on the same computer with the same adapter, it
installed in 2 minutes on the XP partition, no problems
at all.

So, what's the trick for a Win98 installation?

TIA

Are you running any Symantec programs on your 9x partitions (they are
known to cause this issue)?

Also you might want to check out the following link in the Microsoft KB
about what I think is going on.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;281967

Microsoft Might not mention that this also applies to Windows 95 &
Windows 98, but it does. That is to say at the very least the
workaround does, I'm not sure about the patch.



JeanGuy wrote:
> I have a computer that has three bootable partitions. 2
> of them are Win98 and one is WinXP. I cannot install the
> mn730 PCI adapter in any of the Win98 partitions. It
> keeps telling me that it cannot find it.
> When I follow the Wizard instructions, at one point it
> tells me to shut down, install the adapter and resume.
> When I do that, as soon as Windows loads, it detetcs the
> Adapter, asks me to Insert the WIndows CD, it intalls the
> drivers, then the Wizard quicks in and it fails. Then, if
> I reboot, Windows tells me that the adapter is not
> working properly!
>
> But, on the same computer with the same adapter, it
> installed in 2 minutes on the XP partition, no problems
> at all.
>
> So, what's the trick for a Win98 installation?
>
> TIA

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I have a similar problem with a Win98 machine and the
mn710 usb adapter. I was told at a local Radio Shack
that the 'g' 54mbs system doesn't work with Win98. Maybe
someone else can come up with a solution.


>-----Original Message-----
>I have a computer that has three bootable partitions. 2
>of them are Win98 and one is WinXP. I cannot install the
>mn730 PCI adapter in any of the Win98 partitions. It
>keeps telling me that it cannot find it.
>When I follow the Wizard instructions, at one point it
>tells me to shut down, install the adapter and resume.
>When I do that, as soon as Windows loads, it detetcs the
>Adapter, asks me to Insert the WIndows CD, it intalls
the
>drivers, then the Wizard quicks in and it fails. Then,
if
>I reboot, Windows tells me that the adapter is not
>working properly!
>
>But, on the same computer with the same adapter, it
>installed in 2 minutes on the XP partition, no problems
>at all.
>
>So, what's the trick for a Win98 installation?
>
>TIA
>.
>

The MN-710 requires Windows 98 SE. It will not work with the first
edition of Windows 98. The MN-720 & MN-730 are supposed to be able to
work with both versions of Windows 98.

Dino wrote:
> I have a similar problem with a Win98 machine and the
> mn710 usb adapter. I was told at a local Radio Shack
> that the 'g' 54mbs system doesn't work with Win98. Maybe
> someone else can come up with a solution.

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THanks,

....but no go!

I had no 0 bytes *.cab files and I deactivated Norton AV.

What gets me is that the documentation does not mention
anything about having to let the Plug and Play do its
job. It seems to be implying that the BroadBand
Installation Wizard will take care of everything! But it
doesn't. I seems that the Plug and Play is missing the
appropriate drivers. I tried bypasssing the Windows 98
Installation CD and to get the Plug and Play to use the
driver on the BroadBand CD... still no go.

I Googled on "Installation 730" (in this group)...
nothing, and I looked at about a dozen KB articles, tried
various suggestions for closely realted issues with
slightly different models (mn130, mn530, etc..), still
nothing.

I guess my best hope is to wait for somone who
experienced the exact same thing to show up...

Thanks.

>-----Original Message-----
>Are you running any Symantec programs on your 9x
partitions (they are
>known to cause this issue)?
>
>Also you might want to check out the following link in
the Microsoft KB
>about what I think is going on.
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;281967
>
>Microsoft Might not mention that this also applies to
Windows 95 &
>Windows 98, but it does. That is to say at the very
least the
>workaround does, I'm not sure about the patch.
>
>
>
>JeanGuy wrote:
>> I have a computer that has three bootable partitions.
2
>> of them are Win98 and one is WinXP. I cannot install
the
>> mn730 PCI adapter in any of the Win98 partitions. It
>> keeps telling me that it cannot find it.
>> When I follow the Wizard instructions, at one point it
>> tells me to shut down, install the adapter and resume.
>> When I do that, as soon as Windows loads, it detetcs
the
>> Adapter, asks me to Insert the WIndows CD, it intalls
the
>> drivers, then the Wizard quicks in and it fails. Then,
if
>> I reboot, Windows tells me that the adapter is not
>> working properly!
>>
>> But, on the same computer with the same adapter, it
>> installed in 2 minutes on the XP partition, no
problems
>> at all.
>>
>> So, what's the trick for a Win98 installation?
>>
>> TIA
>
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before wasting our
>time.
>.
>

They are OEM*.inf files. (Symantec is notorious for creating them.)
When Windows tries to install software or hardware it tries to load
every file in the c:\windows\inf folder. The only problem is that
Windows 9x was not designed to load several thousand of these files.

Jean-Guy wrote:
> THanks,
>
> ...but no go!
>
> I had no 0 bytes *.cab files and I deactivated Norton AV.
>
> What gets me is that the documentation does not mention
> anything about having to let the Plug and Play do its
> job. It seems to be implying that the BroadBand
> Installation Wizard will take care of everything! But it
> doesn't. I seems that the Plug and Play is missing the
> appropriate drivers. I tried bypasssing the Windows 98
> Installation CD and to get the Plug and Play to use the
> driver on the BroadBand CD... still no go.
>
> I Googled on "Installation 730" (in this group)...
> nothing, and I looked at about a dozen KB articles, tried
> various suggestions for closely realted issues with
> slightly different models (mn130, mn530, etc..), still
> nothing.
>
> I guess my best hope is to wait for somone who
> experienced the exact same thing to show up...
>
> Thanks.
>

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One last note it is the files that Symantec creates that are the
problem, (The OEM*.inf files) not the fact that you are running the
software that created them. I highly doubt if they have fixed this
issue in the Symantec software.

Jean-Guy wrote:

> THanks,
>
> ...but no go!
>
> I had no 0 bytes *.cab files and I deactivated Norton AV.
>
> What gets me is that the documentation does not mention
> anything about having to let the Plug and Play do its
> job. It seems to be implying that the BroadBand
> Installation Wizard will take care of everything! But it
> doesn't. I seems that the Plug and Play is missing the
> appropriate drivers. I tried bypasssing the Windows 98
> Installation CD and to get the Plug and Play to use the
> driver on the BroadBand CD... still no go.
>
> I Googled on "Installation 730" (in this group)...
> nothing, and I looked at about a dozen KB articles, tried
> various suggestions for closely realted issues with
> slightly different models (mn130, mn530, etc..), still
> nothing.
>
> I guess my best hope is to wait for somone who
> experienced the exact same thing to show up...
>
> Thanks.
>

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