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Re: [Karlnet] NDIS Driver Installation - This sucks!

To: <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Subject: Re: [Karlnet] NDIS Driver Installation - This sucks!
From: "admin " <admin@mail.warpspeedinternet.ws>
Reply-to: karlnet@WISPNotes.com
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 06:10:07 -0700
List-post: <mailto:karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Bill,
  I have had this exact problem from day one. I still haven't resolved it and 
have received no answers that work from anyone. Let me know if you find the 
solution. This problem is very discourging when considering deploying a full TC 
POP.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Bill Fisher" <fisher@akorn.net>
Reply-To: karlnet@WISPNotes.com
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 17:42:49 -0400

>
>I'm trying to install the NDIS drivers for an Orinoco card on my notebook.
>When Win2K first loaded, it detected the card and installed a driver for it.
>I next followed the instructions in the INSTALL.txt file that comes with the
>driver.
>
>1) I uninstalled the driver for the card.
>2) Reboot
>3) Tried to install the driver.  Said I had an incorrect driver version.
>
>Looked around on the Karlnet web site for information on NDIS driver
>installation.  The only thing I found suggested that I needed to remove all
>of the NDIS driver DLLs that are in the /winnt hierarchy.
>
>4) Did a search for 'wv' and deleted all files in the /winnt area.
>5) Did a search for '48' and deleted all files in the /winnt area.
>6) Rebooted the computer.
>7) Tried to install the driver again.  Again I get incorrect version.
>8) Started over with #4.  Only this time I notice that every time I delete
>wvlan48.dll from the /winnt/system32/drivers directory... it magically shows
>up again a few seconds later.
>
>The instructions state that the "found new hardware" wizard should start
>when I restart Windows if I have deleted all of the files.  It doesn't.  I
>can't seem to delete this wvlan48.dll file successfully.  Any help?
>
>Bill
>
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