Getting a D-Link DFE530+ networked card to work in WinMe - worked in linux

[PimpHolic]

so my friend just got a new computer, a tbird 1.2 ghz and he is dual booting between winme and mandrake. his network adapter (D-Link DFE-530+) worked in mandrake but we can't seem to figure out how to install it in windowsme as strange as that sounds. there is no like .bat file to install it through ms-dos or anything and it doesnt come up when he starts his computer as "new hardware detected" or whatever.. so to all you d-link users out there, how do you install the drivers? i might get him to try win98se instead and try from there so any tips on installing on any windows system would be greatly appreciated

[Molecule Man]

Take a look in DM and see if it is listed there.

[SPB]

I have the same card but not on winme. The driver is on a disk and when you install it through the device manager browse the disk to the winme folder and select it as the location of the driver. Click ok and then next and it will find and install the driver and that should be it :)

[X_console]

If you go to D-Link's website I'm sure there's a link there somewhere that will allow you to download the drivers for this card.

[Special Ed]

I use the same network card as well, and when I first installed winme (before I was introduced to Linux), winme automatically installed a driver that worked with the card. (Although I don't have anything good functionally to say about winme, its driver support was superb).

Your best bet would be to look in the device manger by right clicking on the my computer icon. If the driver is there, then the issue is with the way you set up your internet connection. I go through a whacky server, so I had a bunch of trouble getting mine to work at first.

If there is no driver then go to hardware installer in control panel --> specify a location for you driver --> A:\WIN9X. This should do the trick. If there are any missing files then route the installer to to your windows directory or windows/system directory, and everything else should be found.

[Syngin]

Yeah, do this:

Control Panel -> Add New Hardware -> (I forget the option here in ME but try to choose from a list and not detect) -> Choose network card -> Click Have Disk -> choose driver from your floppy.

I say this assuming its not already set up under your device manager but may have an error. In the event of that, check out its properties in device manager and, if there IS a problem, choose update driver and update it from your floppy. (Note: for some reason, Win98 at doesn't recognize there is a conflict as it thinks IRQ PCI Steering can handle the conflict. It can't.)

Lastly, if his motherboard is an all -in-one type of mother board (ie. on-board sound, video etc.) the problem is most likely an IRQ conflict which is pretty painful to deal with as the MB forces its onboard stuff to particular IRQs and you end up with conflicts that (at least Win98) doesn't tell you about.

This particular problem is a royal ***** to fix. I had to put 2 other network cards in my box at work and then slowly remove then reboot after reboot to get a nic card that wouldn't use the predefined IRQ the MB was forcing on me. With this type of board (and I've seen the same problem on at least 3 different makes of the all-in-one boards) you can't manually change the irq for installed nic cards.

Drop me a line at crenfax@geocities.com if you'd like any more info.

BTW, ME is the worst MS OS to date IMHO. Its got no DOS backbone (ie. why it loads so fast) and the bugs are many. Reminds me of Win98 1st Edition.

[ 20 October 2001: Message edited by: Syngin ]