[RESOLVED] PCI ETHERNET CONTROLLER DRIVER

[[email protected]]

I am technology director for a rural Oklahoma school district. My ag teacher has a lab of 13 Compaq presario 4540's running w95 and we have recently decided to connect them to our Novell network (Novell 5, client 32). On one (and one only) of these Compaq's when I install the NIC (a Realtek 8139) I am asked for the driver for the "PCI ethernet controller." Normally, I have browsed to the win95 folder on the installation diskette and found the driver there, but not on this computer. I have tried using the diskettes from one of the other nic's I installed, but still have the same problem. I tried installing a different nic (one with a Realtek 8109 chipset) but get the same problem. Does anyone have a clue?

[wbatten]

just go to the web sight and get the driver?
http://www.realtek.com.tw/cn/cn.html

or when it ask for the driver or disk try this C:\windows\inf providing you have windows95 installed there
Techno®

------------------
Techno®

[This message has been edited by wbatten (edited June 02, 2000).]

[b_fleury]

I've seen this with some realtek based cards. If you choose specify a driver, then force it to use the driver off the disk, then 90% of the time it will work fine.

You may also want to try a different PCI slot if one is available.

Want my advice? Through those compaq's out the window and buy some clones, save some headaches.

[This message has been edited by b_fleury (edited June 10, 2000).]