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re: Wireless on Win95 Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 12:26 pm Posted by Jerry (901 messages posted) Hi Louis: It sounds like you're in "driver hell" like I described in the other thread you've been following. I never did find a good way of uninstalling conflicting "wrong" drivers, and took the coward's way out by nuking the hard drive and re-installing my clean Win95 image after each failed installation. Sorry I can't offer a sure-fire shortcut. Jerry [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Wireless on Win95 Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 4:59 pm Posted by Louis (37 messages posted) Thanks for the reply Jerry. I can simply reload the Ghost image of the Win95 I now am using, not much has changed since I loaded it 2 weeks ago and then I can start over to see if anything changes (for the better). But I'll wait to see if anyone else has some thoughts on the conflicting device issues. Too bad the laptop never came with 95 or I could restore it to factory specs and go from there. That may be one of the issues at stake here since I'm doing a piecemeal install, the audio never worked in 95 and the ATI card also has an issue. If all else fails I can switch to the Win98 or 2K that the PC originally came with and that should solve all the problems. Sigh, guess Win95 is sloooooooowly fading away . BTW, I found a couple of threads elsewhere of a MA401 married to XP and think I did find a 2K user with the MA401, did you ever get your 2K running with the card? - Louis http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/10517-43-netgear-ma401-windows-step-step On Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 12:26 pm, Jerry wrote: >Hi Louis: > >It sounds like you're in "driver hell" like I >described in the other thread you've been >following. I never did find a good way of >uninstalling conflicting "wrong" drivers, >and took the coward's way out by nuking >the hard drive and re-installing my clean >Win95 image after each failed installation. > >Sorry I can't offer a sure-fire shortcut. > >Jerry [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Wireless on Win95 Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 7:50 pm Posted by Jerry (901 messages posted) I tried putting Win2K on my little laptop, which runs Win95 so well, and it worked OK, but it ran slowly. It wouldn't run the MA401 though, which I attributed to lack of resources (I only have 147MB of RAM available), and I'd made no other hardware changes which would account for its NOT working. Funny you should mention trouble with the audio. See my post here http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win95/1075078059?s for some sympathy, but I don't guarantee it'll help. Another funny quirk with my laptop (Toshiba 510CDT) is that when doing a "clean install," if I don't get the sound drivers installed properly first, the built-in dial-up modem won't work. I never figured out why, but it happened often enough that I wrote myself a note about it. If you want to try the system snooper AIDA32, here's a new link: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html The link in the "Fussy Sound Drivers" post is outdated. Jerry [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Wireless on Win95 Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 8:54 pm Posted by Louis (37 messages posted) Have you researched the RAM issue to see IF it's the key to your problem? as for my current problems. I managed to get rid of all but one of the conflicts I mentioned previously by manually changing the memory ranges but can't get one address to change on the ethernet controller. Also the PCI cardbus controller wasn't designed for Win95 nor was the Crystal audio device so I can't find drivers and don't know how to hack (if possible) the ones I have for 98-XP. I've found more than one way to install inf files but the ones I have will not install. The system hangs up on "other locations" when I try to manually update the driver, it won't recognize the inf info since it's made for Win98 and of course will not install so I can't use the drivers either. I think Win95 is toast on my Latitude C610 and I'll need to switch to Win98 if I want the PC to work with an OS other than 2K & XP. At least the desktops all run on 95. I grabbed Aida a while back, like it, verrry snoopy indeed! Not a part of this thread but I did get Win95 to run on a 2600 mHz Dell 8300 last year but something wasn't right, very slooow, so I reloaded the OS - no longer will run. Have no idea what I did to enable it, maybe I'll stick to that project instead and try getting it to run again. (Perhaps I can ask Congress for a one billion dollar stimulus to get Win95 to run on the C610 :) On Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 7:50 pm, Jerry wrote: >I tried putting Win2K on my little laptop, which >runs Win95 so well, and it worked OK, but it ran >slowly. It wouldn't run the MA401 though, which >I attributed to lack of resources (I only have >147MB of RAM available), and I'd made no other >hardware changes which would account for its NOT >working. > >Funny you should mention trouble with the audio. >See my post here > >href="http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win95/1075078059?s">http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win95/1075078059?s >for some sympathy, but I don't guarantee it'll >help. > >Another funny quirk with my laptop (Toshiba >510CDT) is that when doing a "clean install," if I >don't get the sound drivers installed properly >first, the built-in dial-up modem won't work. I >never figured out why, but it happened often >enough that I wrote myself a note about it. > >If you want to try the system snooper AIDA32, >here's a new link: > >href="http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html">http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html >The link in the "Fussy Sound Drivers" post is >outdated. > >Jerry [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Wireless on Win95 Friday, February 27, 2009 at 11:28 am Posted by Jerry (901 messages posted) Hi Louis: I never researched the RAM issue on Win2K -- that's just a suspicion. I went back to my Win95 OS on that machine because I knew I could never live with Win2K's slowness. In the case of putting Win95 successfully on other (late model) machines, don't forget that Win95 had a problem with some higher-speed processors, and a fix was supplied by Microsoft. Take a look at this thread: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win95/1205277774 Jerry [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Wireless on Win95 Friday, February 27, 2009 at 9:00 pm Posted by Louis (37 messages posted) Win2K's slowness - yes it is and I can't disable virtual memory as I recall (memory, recall --> pun!). Getting Win95 to run on a machine needing the AMD fix can be a headache. It seems everytime I've tried this I get different results but eventually it does work, then I Ghost the basic setup for a headacheless future. But I don't think most (all) folks have gotten it to run above 2.1ghz so I wish I could recall how I got it to work on the 2.6ghz machine. Well as to the MA401 and Win95 on my C610, no go. Looks like some of the parts do not have a Win95 inf, dll, etc... so I couldn't get it to work properly. This post somes via the Win98 partition now on the PC. It too proved a problem. The 3Com 3C920 Ethernet controller wanted files I did not have while installing and will have to gather them eventually. This seemed to slow down the boot process big time. Did upgrade dial up, not winsock, IE 5.5 SP2. I did get the card working but need to finish the ethernet install. Three local networks, one unsecured, only 20% signal so I can't test anything until I'm at the local library, they have an unsecured system for everyones use. Will my Zonealarm firewall protect me there or do I need to take other measures? Need to learn how this all works asap. - Louis On Friday, February 27, 2009 at 11:28 am, Jerry wrote: >Hi Louis: > >I never researched the RAM issue on Win2K -- >that's just a suspicion. I went back to my Win95 >OS on that machine because I knew I could never >live with Win2K's slowness. > >In the case of putting Win95 successfully on other >(late model) machines, don't forget that Win95 had >a problem with some higher-speed processors, and a >fix was supplied by Microsoft. Take a look at >this thread: > >href="http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win95/1205277774">http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win95/1205277774 > >Jerry [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Wireless on Win95 Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 5:40 pm Posted by Jerry (901 messages posted) I never had any luck at all getting any flavor of ZONE ALARM to run on Win95, but I've had good luck with SYGATE PERSONAL FIREWALL v5.5. SYGATE was acquired by Symantec in 2005, and promptly discontinued the free program. I've not tried v5.6, but it was the last one issued and is still listed on many of the popular shareware download sites. You might try it. If it doesn't work, I know v5.5 WILL work, and it's available here: http://www.oldversion.com/Sygate-Personal-Firewall.html Jerry [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Wireless on Win95 Friday, March 6, 2009 at 12:29 pm Posted by Louis (37 messages posted) Zonealarm 2.6.362 works perfectly on all my os's. Rather than upgrade to bloatware versions I use the older one. Interesting problem tho, I can access the local library's hotspot but cannot get the browsers to work on 2k and XP. Will try 98 next but expect the same problem. I am not sure what else to enable/change in my configurations to get on line. The help desk is not too helpful at the library, everyone is one their own. But one would assume XP SP2 should be almost automatic in connecting. Not sure about 98 but have yet to find a very detailed web site for setting up wifi connections. There are many, just haven't found the one I need yet, any advice Jerry? - Louis On Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 5:40 pm, Jerry wrote: >I never had any luck at all getting any flavor of >ZONE ALARM to run on Win95, but I've had good luck >with SYGATE PERSONAL FIREWALL v5.5. > >SYGATE was acquired by Symantec in 2005, and >promptly discontinued the free program. > >I've not tried v5.6, but it was the last one >issued and is still listed on many of the popular >shareware download sites. You might try it. If >it doesn't work, I know v5.5 WILL work, and it's >available here: > > >href="http://www.oldversion.com/Sygate-Personal-Firewall.html">http://www.oldversion.com/Sygate-Personal-Firewall.html > >Jerry [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 95 Discussion Forum