Networking problem in Windows 98SE

While considering networking something went wrong and I ended up with a problem upon boot up. A message "MS Workgroups ODI/NDIS3 Mapper V2.8-Can't find LSL" occurs . Device Manager also also shows that both the existing Ndis2 Driver and ODI driver are disabled. Since I decided not to network I have no problem except the error upon boot up and the disabled drivers. None of this has effected internet access for either PC.

 

Your system is trying and failing to load some Novell Networking pieces.

They can be completely removed but at this point you really don't need to. Please post a copy of your c:\config.sys and c:\autoexec.bat files. There are a couple of very easy edits that will stop the error from happening.

 

Dear Newt: I unchecked the multiple networking entries in autoexec. bat files and the boot up error is gone. Everything seems to be OK except in Device Manager those two drivers are still disabled. If I try to update the drivers I'm asked for the 98SE disk which I don't have. My original O/S was 98 and a few years ago when I had some upgrades the shop also upgraded the O/S to SE from 98. All the 98 files are in WinZip. Do I need that SE disk to fix this problem or are there other options.

Thanks for the help

Regards,

Jules

 

Other options. Ignore it.

It is sorta like having a music center with a turntable that won't set to 78RPM. If you don't own any 78RPM records, it simply becomes a non-issue.

If you go into your networking setup and remove all the protocols except TCP/IP and possibly to device manager and remove the error entries (they may go away with protocol removal) you won't see the errors.