WIN98 USB Drivers
 

I'd like to connect my 770 to a WIN98 PC - connecting via USB brings up the new Hardware detection but I seem stuck on finding a suitable driver for WIN98.

The Nokia website has some WINXP/2000 drivers for the DKE-2 cable that was supplied but nothing that I can see for WIN98. Could anybody point me in the direction of a suitable driver I could use ?

MTIA.
FF,

Re: WIN98 USB Drivers
 

Upgrade! :D

Re: WIN98 USB Drivers
 

To what or are you referring to the PC ?

It was supplied with OS 2006 edition v. 3.2006.49-2 which is the latest if I'm correct ?

Thks
FF.

Re: WIN98 USB Drivers
 

No kid, you're talking an OS that's almost 10 years old:D ! Now with that said, I actually do have an old laptop with win98 where for kicks I was able to plug in a Bluetooth usb adapter for it and was I'm able to connect to it with my 770 via bluetooth to transfer files (the adapter had windows 98 drivers)...works in a pinch although BT is much slower then direct USB.

Re: WIN98 USB Drivers
 

If the computer is that old, switch it over to Ubuntu. It'll run way faster.

Re: WIN98 USB Drivers
 

Thanks for input :-)

It isn't a PC I really want to play around with and isn't networked to anything else. It would, on occaions be helpful if I could transfer some work related files from it to my 770 and just hooking up via USB would be the easiest and least complicated (in theory).

FF.

Re: WIN98 USB Drivers
 

Since the 770 presents itself as a bog-standard storage device to the usb port, wouldn't the standard usb drivers for Windows 98 work?

Re: WIN98 USB Drivers
 

What you need is some generic USB mass storage driver
Try this (haven't tried)
http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php

If it doesn't work out of box you may try tweak driver VID and PID values in driver ini file to match those of nokia 770 so the drive recognizes the device. For finding those values google for usbview.exe and run it when device is attached.

Re: WIN98 USB Drivers
 

There is no such thing in windows 98, only W2k and up has them.

Re: WIN98 USB Drivers
 

Workes a treat - thanks Fanoush.

Cheers
FF
Can't wait for some Tmave Pivo next week in Praha :D

Re: WIN98 USB Drivers
 

I know, but at least some usb flash drives come with Win98 drivers. I bet they'd work for the N800 as well.

Re: WIN98 USB Drivers
 

You would probably lose :-)

In general such w98 drivers are intentionally tied to specific ID of the device (VID/PID pair) so they do not conflict with other ones (as suggested by Microsoft in this example driver source). Some are also somehow HW specific so they don't work even if you tweak install ini file and add IDs of your device. I have tried and failed at least with one such driver.

Those drivers mentioned above seem to be extracted from Windows Me (Me has generic usb storage support like w2k too).