Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"We've put all the resources we have to work, but nature bats last." -- Steve Maviglio, Governor Gray Davis's press secretary, on that season's California fires.

(From the Quotation of the Day mailing list, 2003-10-30. Submitted to that list by Kcwisteria.)

I've got a Win98 machine I'm trying to troubleshoot for someone else. It looks like I'll need to download a driver off the net. What seemed obvious was to plug it into my LAN, give it an IP address, and use my existing net connection to get whatever I need. But when I try to configure the IP settings on the Ethernet adaptor using the apropriate control panel, Windows asks me for the Win98 CD to install some bits from, and guess what I don't have. Some of the files it wants exist on my Win95 CD, but I'm not sure that's safe to use here.

Can I get away with copying secur32.dll, svrapi.dll, ndis.vxd, ndis2sup.vxd, ndiswmi.sys, and vnetbios.vxd onto a floppy or a CD from another Win98 machine and telling Windows to look there (or manually copying them to wherever the need to go)? And will the machine still try to autoconnect to AOL when a browser is opened, after I give it back and there's no Ethernet cable plugged in any more?

I went to plug in a recently-arrived computer, and I seem to have run out of power cords.