Old Lappy + Belkin 7050 Help!

JoeBoi · 14 Sep 2007 at 16:51

I got my self an old laptop from my GF's sister that she was chucking away crazy fool! still works but I cannot get it on the internet It's hardly got any drivers on it won't detect the PCMCIA port so I can't get a wireless card in there and I'm currently trying to use a Belkin 7050 USB Wireless Stick. But I'm having trouble installing drivers for it they lost the old disk, I've downloaded some from the internet and when it tells me in insert the USB Stick I get prompt by the Windows Hardware Update Wizard. On this it scans for the drivers but will not find any its detected as USB2.0 WLAN

Would like to get this lappy up n running

JoeBoi

semi-pro waster · 14 Sep 2007 at 17:37

Sounds rather curious, it doesn't recognise the PCMCIA port yet it recognises a USB2.0 device? Or do you mean that is what it should be recognised as?

What methods of getting data onto the laptop do you have? What OS is it running?

JoeBoi · 14 Sep 2007 at 20:26

It recognised them on windows 98 which was on it before I had it when she first got it so many months ago it had XP it was brought from a certain auction site if I'm correct, But has no driver cd I've installed XP on it and it recognised the USB2.0 WLAN as just that but cannot find any drivers, As for the PCMCIA slot it there is Four Unknown drivers, two are Unknown are the other two are PCI to cardbus bridge. I have not idea where to get these drivers from, I have a 1GB USB stick and CD-RW the Laptop says its a 600e IBM Thinkpad but I think its been upgraded because it has a DVD Drive instead of a floppy disk drive and 3xxmb of ram.

semi-pro waster · 15 Sep 2007 at 00:55

Well the Lenovo supported IBM site seems to have quite a few driver options for that model range so it might be worth a look, there are PCMCIA drivers there at least.

JoeBoi · 15 Sep 2007 at 10:22

Will 98 drivers work on XP?

basmic · 15 Sep 2007 at 10:37

What make and model is the laptop?

basmic · 15 Sep 2007 at 10:42

Just seen the make/model, and managed to get this far. Must be a very dated laptop. :eek:

semi-pro waster · 15 Sep 2007 at 10:55

JoeBoi said:
Will 98 drivers work on XP?

I'd probably suggest using the NT drivers that I think I saw last night as it is what XP is mostly based on.

JoeBoi · 15 Sep 2007 at 11:01

basmic said:
Just seen the make/model, and managed to get this far. Must be a very dated laptop.

The laptop does look dated however I think components have been changed it has more ram then original 600E's have, a DVD drive. I'll give the NT drivers a shot cheers mate