Hello all,

I am attempting to prepare my daughter's computer so she can join our family network. The comnputer was a gift from a friend who formatted the hard drive and reinstalled the OS - Win98SE from the IBM recovery CD which accompanied the computer, but no other drivers etc.

The computer is an Aptiva 2194 with a 600 celeron CPU, 128 meg RAM, with a Compex ReadyLink Express 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter (s029-a1).

The Ethernet card was in the machine, with no drivers installed. I found drivers and installed the card, but was unable to configure the machine to "talk" with my hub (SynOptics LattisHub 2803).

In frustration, I decided to re-format the machine and reinstall Win98SE from a Microsoft disk because I had just successfully configured another computer running 'straight' Win98SE.

My problem is as follows:-

When trying to configure the network, the computer asks me to insert a "Novell Netware DOS disk that was "supplied by the manufacturer".

I do not have this disk, and I can't fathom why the Compex ReadyLINK Express 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter needs this Novell program to run as it wasn't included in the drivers I downloaded from the net.

Is there a work around?

Any suggestions will be most gratefully received.

Anne Smith
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