jim jim jim Posted June 6, 2010 Report Share Posted June 6, 2010 I have a windows 2000 desktop system and want to connect it to a recently acquired Thinkpad laptop running windows 98.The desktop has a 10/100 ethernet connection to the local LAN. A serial port, a parallel port, an internal modem. A couple of USB ports.The laptop has an internal modem, a serial port, a parallel port, a USB port, a PCMCIA connection and IBM IDE PC Card (but no cable or peripherals).I have an ethernet NIC with USB connection, a PCMCIA wireless ethernet card, a USB attached floppy drive, and an USB memory card. All of these require drivers not present on the laptop.I have tried to connect the 2 machines via Laplink parallel cable but can't get them to talk. How can I troubleshoot the Laplink parallel connection? Do I have any other options to connect (at least so I can get an ethernet driver loaded on the laptop).Thanks,Jim Jim Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim jim jim Posted July 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2010 I have a windows 2000 desktop system and want to connect it to a recently acquired Thinkpad laptop running windows 98.The desktop has a 10/100 ethernet connection to the local LAN. A serial port, a parallel port, an internal modem. A couple of USB ports.The laptop has an internal modem, a serial port, a parallel port, a USB port, a PCMCIA connection and IBM IDE PC Card (but no cable or peripherals).I have an ethernet NIC with USB connection, a PCMCIA wireless ethernet card, a USB attached floppy drive, and an USB memory card. All of these require drivers not present on the laptop.I have tried to connect the 2 machines via Laplink parallel cable but can't get them to talk. How can I troubleshoot the Laplink parallel connection? Do I have any other options to connect (at least so I can get an ethernet driver loaded on the laptop).Thanks,Jim Jim Jimhelp! anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted July 17, 2010 Report Share Posted July 17, 2010 I don't know what Laplink is.Can't you get the W98 machine connected to the LAN, with one of the USB devices you have? (Of course that means you need to search for W98 compatible drivers.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted July 17, 2010 Report Share Posted July 17, 2010 Is there anything in HERE which might be relevant? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim jim jim Posted July 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2010 I don't know what Laplink is.Can't you get the W98 machine connected to the LAN, with one of the USB devices you have? (Of course that means you need to search for W98 compatible drivers.)Thanks for the reply. My problem is exactly that - I can't get the w98 machine connected to the LAN."I have an ethernet NIC with USB connection, a PCMCIA wireless ethernet card, a USB attached floppy drive, and an USB memory card. All of these require drivers not present on the laptop."So I don't have any devices that will allow me to load new drivers on the W98 machine.JimJimJim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim jim jim Posted July 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2010 Is there anything in HERE which might be relevant? :)Thanks Irene, I'll plow thru that stuff. But I thought that Laplink support was embedded in W98 and 2000.JimJImJIM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted July 19, 2010 Report Share Posted July 19, 2010 All of these require drivers not present on the laptop.Ok, I didn't grab the full meaning of that sentence. But that laptop bust have some input device - a CD-ROM perhaps? So you could burn the W98 drivers from another computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim jim jim Posted July 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2010 All of these require drivers not present on the laptop.Ok, I didn't grab the full meaning of that sentence. But that laptop bust have some input device - a CD-ROM perhaps? So you could burn the W98 drivers from another computer?It has 2 input devices - 1 keyboard and 1 mouse. (And I suppose the parallel port, serial port, and modem could be considered input devices.) As I mentioned above, it does have a PCMCIA card that was probably cable connected to an external CDROM drive, but I don't have the cable or the external drive. And I haven't been able to find equipment of that kind and vintage.Thanks,JimJImJIM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pa1916 Posted August 14, 2010 Report Share Posted August 14, 2010 Why would you want to use two now unsupported operating systems there wide open.??Sorry just a matter of interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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