Laptop problems after failed ethernet installation!
Hi peeps, looking for some advice here.
I have an Ultra 6120 laptop (made by Mitac, I believe). It's a Celeron 400 Mhz, with 96 megs of RAM, operating Win98SE. It's been great for the last three years; totally reliable, unusually for Windows!
The problem came when I tried to install a Belkin F5D020 10/100BT ethernet PCMCIA card. The installation failed at the prompted reboot, when the computer would repeatedly reboot onto safe mode with no input from me. Nothing I did would alter this behaviour.
Deciding that broadband access down route was an over-rated facility (!), I uninstalled the Belkin software while in enforced safe mode. The computer then booted up normally, but now has lost TCP/IP from its network protocols. I've attemoted to reinstall TCP/IP from the Win98SE disk, and it appears in the Network information box, but I can't connect to any servers on the internet even though the dial-up connection works normally. Whenever I enter the Network part of Control Panel, I get a pop-up saying 'your network is not complete, do you wish to continue?'. I have restored the computer's identity to what it was before the ethernet installation. I've even tried restoring the registry (saved before the ethernet installation) but to no effect.
So, a) how to I get back on the 'net? And b) what's wrong with this bloody ethernet installation routine? (Needless to say I've had no support from Belkin!!).