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...

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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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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On 2007-12-02, Shenan Stanley <newshelper******.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP

After copying the device drive, rt2860.sys to the windows/system32/drivers
directory, the following msg popped up.....I didn't include the picture....

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cannot install this hardware

trendnet tew-621pc wireless n pc card

an error occured during the installation of the device

the system cannot find the file specified
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