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Old 12-01-2007, 07:00 PM
Shenan Stanley
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Re: driver install for wireless cardbus on laptop w/driver not found!?

student wrote:
> On a winxp w/sp2 & ~770 meg memory, installing a Trendnet tew-621pc
> pmcia
> type card doesn't work. The failure in the "found new hardware"
> scripts says that the file/driver wasn't found AFTER it copies the
> driver to the windows/system32/drivers directory. The driver
> doesn't have the windows
> sig approval/whatever. What else would be needed?
>
> I needed to install the genuine win junk because of a need to get a
> couple files & updates onto my desktop some time back.
>
> Have read that vista doesn't allow installation of non-win sig
> drivers & wonder if it now holds true for winxp as well with the
> "genuine" win trojan.
>
> Would even be more nicer if there is a means the user can get winxp
> to load/run the device driver via a manual setup...


There should be nothing preventing you from installing "unsigned drivers".

Please give us the exact text of whatever message you are seeing.

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Old 12-01-2007, 07:00 PM