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?