TCP/IP driver disappears on reboot

A friend of mine recently installed a new Linksys
Wireless G USB adapter on his old Win98 machine (upgraded
from Win95). After initially installing the device, it
works fine. But upon restart it doesn't work any more.
I traced the problem to the TCP/IP driver disappearing
from the network setup. The only solution is to
reinstall the TCP/IP driver manually through the Network
Neighborhood properties. How do I keep the system from
removing the driver during reboot? It's driving them
nuts.

Uninstall, remove the card, reinstall the driver, shutdown.
install the card and restart.
TW

"Joe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:5c3601c400c9$7c847ae0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> A friend of mine recently installed a new Linksys
> Wireless G USB adapter on his old Win98 machine (upgraded
> from Win95). After initially installing the device, it
> works fine. But upon restart it doesn't work any more.
> I traced the problem to the TCP/IP driver disappearing
> from the network setup. The only solution is to
> reinstall the TCP/IP driver manually through the Network
> Neighborhood properties. How do I keep the system from
> removing the driver during reboot? It's driving them
> nuts.

I've done this, many times. The problem is very odd.
Sometimes the driver will hang around and work for a few
days. Then, on a random reboot, it will disappear. I am
wondering if any of the old drivers from the original
Win95 installation could be causing this problem? Is
there a location where the drivers are cached, and if so,
how would I tell which one to delete?

>-----Original Message-----
>Uninstall, remove the card, reinstall the driver,
shutdown.
>install the card and restart.
>TW
>
>"Joe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:5c3601c400c9$7c847ae0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> A friend of mine recently installed a new Linksys
>> Wireless G USB adapter on his old Win98 machine
(upgraded
>> from Win95). After initially installing the device, it
>> works fine. But upon restart it doesn't work any more.
>> I traced the problem to the TCP/IP driver disappearing
>> from the network setup. The only solution is to
>> reinstall the TCP/IP driver manually through the
Network
>> Neighborhood properties. How do I keep the system from
>> removing the driver during reboot? It's driving them
>> nuts.
>
>
>.
>

I have this same problem with a lynksys EG1032v2 10/100/1000 PCI card
runing on Win2k server.

Drivers disapears after some but not all reboots. Re-installing the
driver does not work...what I mean is, when you get to the "have disk"
option and point windows to the corrent ini file, the list of matching
hardware...remains empty.

To get the driver back, I have to phsyically remove the card, boot,
shutdown, plug card back in, then install driver.