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Thanks.
Rachel
Hi.  I am having a rather frustrating problem with a computer 
running
Windows 98 First Edition not being able to go online.  Here are 
what I hope
are all of the relevant details.
My wife and I each own a computer purchased from Micron, now MPC.  
Both
machines are running Windows 98 First Edition and I have kept 
them both in
pretty good working order.  Both are running Avast Antivirus Home 
Edition.
Both are connected to Verizon DSL via a Westell 2200 modem and a 
Linksys
router, both purchased from Verizon.  Her machine is the one 
connected with
the modem and the router via a USB cable, and mine is just 
connected, via
USB, to the router.

As you know, Windows 98 is a bit hard to configure with USB thumb 
drives,
but my wife had a need to use one on her machine.  I actually 
found a USB
flash drive driver file which claimed to work on 98 First 
Edition.  I
installed it on my wife's PC and it actually worked.  It was able 
to see the
thumb drive and we could access its files.  We were both rather 
excited at
this but our celebration was short-lived when my wife told me she 
couldn't
go online.  Eventually I discovered that her Device Manager 
showed an item
which my Device Manager did not show.  Her Device Manager showed 
a category
called "other devices" and in this category is something called a 
PCI Serial
Controller which claims to be uninstalled.  However, I was unable 
to find
appropriate drivers on both my Windows disk and my Micron disk.  
My machine,
on which I did not install these drivers, is working fine and can 
go online.
Of course, I attempted to uninstall these drivers and it appears 
that I did
so successfully but with no positive results.  I don't have the 
original
Verizon installation CD.  If anyone has a clue as to what I did 
and to what
I can do to fix this I will be very grateful, as will my wife.


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