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November 01, 2005
Win98 and Wlan problems - Ndis.vxd
I have a tiny laptop that's too old for any other windows edition than win98.
Problem is I never got any wlan card to work on it. Finally I was desperate enough to try alternate solutions (who wants to lug 3 kg around when you could lug less than 1 kg?). Here's something that might work for you if you're in the same predicament. Just remember you're doing this at your own risk.
This relates to machines with Windows 98 first edition. The version of Ndis.vxd changed from first edition to Win98SE. The card requires the version that came with Windows 98 Second Edition.
To fix (and it might break something else, so beware), download the right language file from this page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q243199/
Then save it to some location, open a dos prompt and type:
243199us8.exe /c /t:a:\
Change folder to the one you've got the file in (cd nameoffolder, cd .. to go up a notch etc). Replace the file name here with your language version. The /t is the location it zips the files out to. Right here it's set to the floppy drive, but it could easily be c:\drivers\ or something else.
Then the safe way is probably to do as described in this newsgroup thread, but I simply renamed the old Ndis.vxd in thec:\windows\system\ folder, and pasted the new version in. It worked for me, but I haven't tried a second time, so no guarantees.
All of this was done after the card was installed, and I found a yellow exclamation mark in the hardware list, and found the driver complained about Ndis.vxd and Ntkern.vxd. Replacing the first file was enough to make it work.
I'd actually love to install Linux on it instead. Damn Small Linux would be about right, if I could get the wlan card to work on it? But I'll leave that for another day.
Posted by Ann at November 1, 2005 08:53 PM
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Thank you so much!!!! Ann. Your information helps me a lot. Really thx :)
Posted by: Patrick at March 23, 2006 04:24 AM