Driver Needed

[poltergeisty]

I have acquired an Omnibook 800CT with Win 98se installed which I would love to use for various things, but I can't get access into it at all! The modem card, a PCMCIA Xircom 10/100+Modem 56 doesn't work. It looks the the driver is there but doesn't show up in the device manager under network adapters. So, trying to make a network connection is out of the question. Even tried a serial connection to the desktop and that didn't seem to work. Never could get a serial connection to work.

Now what I have here is a PCMCIA flashdisk card that I can access in the mini laptop and figured I could transfer the driver on there to the laptop from my desktop. Nope! Need the damn driver for the desktop so it can use the flashdisk card.

Here are the specs:



Device Type: Removable drive
Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard (HP)
Model: FlashDisk F1013A

SDP-10 10.4Mb
MA10137CBK5
92/93 SUNDISK PAT. 5070032,5095344
MADE IN U.S.A. 5168465,5172338

Already Googled it and went to driverguide.com



Now what do you bet I have to use 98se to use the card on the desktop?





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[poltergeisty]

Think I figured out why serial never does work for me. It has to be a cross over. :roll: I new that using computer-computer with networking cable using ICS with wifi, just never accrued to me to do the same with serial. So I do have a null modem which makes the crossover, but now I need to dig around my boxes of electronic crap for a Male-Female serial cord. :roll: PITA! I have Female-Female and Male-Male, but no Male to Female.

 

[davidmc36]

Not much comfort or help buuuuuut.......

I had an almost identical issue. Different card but PCMCIA flashcard, W98SE, would not see the card, drivers do not exist AFAIK it is supposed to just see it, at least I could not find any. My Mother's Vista machine gobbled it right up, just loved it. So I put XP on my EVO and now it loves the card. Almost looks like I am seeing a trend here with 98SE. Maybe we should e-mail MS to report the bug.:lol::lol:

 

[poltergeisty]

I know why that is the issue. See, XP and Vista will load a generic driver for most everything, but for anything like 98, 95 or Win 3.1 you have to load a driver manually. Vista though has shrunk their driver database I do believe. So some hardware won't get recognized like it use to. Perfect example was a DVD/RW I had installed.

What I'm going to do is install 98se to VMware and see what happens.

 

[poltergeisty]

55 users veiwed and no joy- Damn! :lol: Well, I am in the process of making a cable for this null modem. Hopefully I can share the network driver on the desktop and copy it over to the omnibook with serial. Once I have network capability.. Muhahahaha, magic things will happen. :lol:

 

[iMONITOR]

Check the settings in BIOS to make sure the modem is enabled. Many laptops allow hardware devices to be disabled to conserve battery power.

 

[lgentle]

What you could also do it use WinRAR or WinZip and create floppy size "parts", then, once you have all the parts copied, re-zip or re-RAR the file together.

I suggest WinRAR. At only 1.17MB for the trial edition, it will fit on a floppy.

 

[mike_s104]

Intel® Mobile Adapters - Where Can I Get Windows* 95, 98, NT* and 2000 Installation (Driver) Files

burn to a CD or use WinRAR like suggested above ( WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files ) to create 1.44MB self-extracting files and copy to floppy disks. OR...remove the HDD and use an EIDE to USB adapter on your other PC and copy the driver directly to the HDD, re-install in the laptop and install the driver from there.

 

[shaft]

Get a copy of XP and load it on that laptop, it will solve 99.9% of your current and future issues. Those Xircom cards were slick when they first came out ( especially the ones with the old ISDN interface), but had a ton if issues with both flavors of 98,and NT. Seemed to work ok in 2000 but worked great in XP.

 

[poltergeisty]

Check the settings in BIOS to make sure the modem is enabled. Many laptops allow hardware devices to be disabled to conserve battery power.

Yes, the BIOS settings have the card on. I have the IR port off too btw.. The card was always on as it shows up in the taskbar.

Guys, this laptop is very old and has NO CD drive or floppy. The floppy that did come with it was marked "bad", though the cable I think is bad. The cable for the CD or floppy is a SCSI type and proprietary (40 bucks on ebay) One day I'll just use my surgeon skills, open the plastic housing of this cable and rewire it. Fill it in with hot glue. :lol: The floppy drive..is a floppy drive, you know, the 5.25 type? :lol: Don't even think I have one of those disks around here either! :lol:

The only methods I have to access the computer are serial, IR and the Xircom modem. LAN is what I seek at this time.

-Update on this situation.

I discovered that in fact WIN 98SE does install a driver for "standard cardbus modems" and have discovered that I can get dial-up. So this means I can download things! Yeppi!!
So being the savvy person I am, I uploaded the drives to my Comcast FTP for web pages, created a tinyurl for those and found a free service for dial-up. Took forever! Felt like I was in the year '97 again. Now here's the funny part, I have Comcast digital voice and used dial-up on it. :lol: :lol: It worked great! Used fax before on this line but never dial-up. :lol:

So now that I got the drivers I wanted it appears the Xercom driver that I got from that driverdownoad site seems like crap. No Network support yet, just modem. I have seen that Intel site, but the card's they mention say for RBEM56G-100, I have a REM56G-100. I'll just try that one anyways and see what happens.

See, originally thought I could get that 10 MB flashcard to wok on my desktop and transfer drivers to the laptop that way, but no driver. :lol: Anyway, dial-up works and will be the method I use to get drivers on this laptop until LAN works - which would be awesome! I have a few WiFI cards, another LAN/modem card and a USB PCMCIA card. So have some options now that I got dial-up to download those drivers.


mike_s104, got 7zip on here and works for the most part, but large files can't be decompressed without it telling me there isn't enough memory. So was thinking of using winrar. This laptop has 32 MB of RAM and a 2 GB hard drive with 1.01 GB left. Plenty for what I will use it for. My page file is set for 80 MB. I might increase that to 100 or 110 and see if 7z will still complain. It has decompressed most of my files unless they are around 8 MB's.







This laptop is capable of a total 80 MB's RAM and with a BIOS update a whole whopping 4 Gigabyte hard drive. :lol: Still, plenty for what I need it for. My ultimate goal will be to install Win 2000 due to it being more stable. Reinstalling an OS will be fun... Probably go through the serial and a network boot of some kind. EEK! The LAN card certainly would not be a bootable device for such an old laptop. Unless I find a CD drive for this.

This is what I have. HP Omnibook 800 CT, Quality Used Laptops, Notebooks, refurbished, reconditioned, off lease, accessories, Dell, HP, IBM


Apparently I can install a 20 GIG hard drive??? 20GB HARD DRIVE FOR HP OmniBook 800 900 6100 XE XE2 - eBay (item 400043474626 end time May-14-09 13:30:52 PDT)

Not according to this bit of info. TuxMobil: Linux on the HP Omnibook 800 Notebook

Installing a Bigger Hard Disk

By Tom Kennedy : "Although it's not officially supported, I've been using a 4GB drive with my HP OmniBook 800 for over a year now without problems (using the newest BIOS off the HP web page)."

Unless that's due to an older BIOS or Linux?

Well, this project has me busy and construction on a serial cable is still in the works.

 

[poltergeisty]

Well finally got a Linksys network card to work and now I'm in business. Currently, its primary task rihgt now is to monitor the router via snmp. Latter I'm using it for Snort, I hope..The Processor is only 167 MHz.
Snort - the de facto standard for intrusion detection/prevention I know of a Windows implementation. Might throw Linux on it. Just a PITA with drivers, etc. Just don't have a CD drive and for how much they cost it ain't worth it. Have to look into a serial boot option.