Whenever you install or change NIC drivers, Win98SE assumes that you also
need to install networking support files (from the OS CD).  After the first
time, it's probably wrong about that, but at least the first time, if
they're not where it looks for them by default, you need to navigate around
on the CD until it finds them.  (The situation is a little analogous to the
early days with CD-ROM drives, where you needed both a drive-specific low-
level driver, and an upper-level driver that added CD-ROM support to the OS,
but in this case it's the NIC driver and networking support.)

David Gillett


On 13 Mar 2004 at 20:12, bobwarasila wrote:

> I inherited a Dell Optiplex G110 that had NT installed as the
> operating system.  I reformatted the drive and have done a clean
> installation of W98SE.  I've downloaded the appropriate drivers from
> Dell and installed them in the proper sequence.  When I get to
> installing the 3COM NIC drivers I'm asked to insert the W98SE disk
> after I have selected the drivers.  I then get an error message saying
> that the system could not find some installation files.  If I skip the
> files and proceed with the installation it all seems to work because
> the device manager shows the  adapter card and says its working fine.
> Now we get to the problem.  When I reboot or start the computer I get
> the following "stalls" ;  vnetsup.vxd, vredir.vxd, dfs.vxd and unable
> to load  msnp32.dll.  I suspect these are all network associated files
> that didn't get loaded because they couldn't be found on the W98SE
> disk and some config or .inf file has been changed during installation
> to look for these.  How can I get rid of the query for these files on
> startup, or do I need them?
>
> Bob Warasila
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