High speed and ethernet ignorant...

[mrcaptainbob]

Have an opportunity to now advance to the new age of high speed Internet! Yay! Except...the phone company installed a Seimans wireless router to my existing Dell Dimension 4600 and could not get it to work. There is a yellow ethernet cable going to the back of the new unit and the back of the 4600. I tried downloading Dell info for a new driver as I was instructed, but can't seem to find what I need. There's a constant request for a file e100b325.sys that should be loaded from the cache file (whatever that is) but I cannot find it anywhere, even on the internet. Which I'm reluctant to load anything from... . So...a call to Dell tells me to acquire an ethernet-to-USB-port cable and that will solve my problems. This is using the new Seimans wireless router.
Then I can cancel my old PeoplePC and go with the new Frontier high speed service.
I guess.

Will this solve the problem? A cable? Or do I need a wireless 'card'? Is that something I can buy and install myself?

[HayZee518]

when I hooked up to time warner cable and high speed broadband I had the option of a wireless router but I opted to go with a wired router. a wireless transmits a signal to a receiver/transmitter which plugs into a spare usb port on your machine. the router communicates with this "new" port. my cable modem has an rj45 a cat 5E cable that goes between the router and the lan card on the computer. for digital phone I have a rj11 that connects my phone to the modem.

[adnadeau]

A wireless router usually has provisions for wired ethernet connections as well, both Cat 5 and USB cables. Wireless is good for laptops, or you can get a wireless PCI card for a desktop computer. Cat 5 is the best way to go; it sounds like you are connected that way. USB connections are slower. Do you know if the ethernet card (or NIC) is working? Go to Start/Run and enter cmd & Enter. Type ipconfig /all to see the NIC address and any network connections. (to get out of this window, type exit & Enter). You could also go to the Device Manager on your PC and see if the network card shows up there and has a driver installed. The file you mentioned may be for that.

[adnadeau]

The e100b435.sys is a driver for an Intel NIC (see Network Connectivity - Creating a network adapter driver install disk). It should already be on your computer somewhere like C:/windows/system32. If you bought your Dell new, it should have come with an installation disk for the NIC. Otherwise, you can download the software from Intel.

[mrcaptainbob]

It works!! YAY! The GM from Frontier phone service came out today and looked the system over. I had downloaded several things, one was from Intel as suggested, but I could NOT get it to recognize that e100b325.sys file! Even though I verified it's existance on my computer! Well, this guy clicks on 'repair' where I was using 'modify'. Eureka! We have lift off! I am now in the space age with high speed internet, wireless capability annnnd a FREE Dell mini-laptop!! Life is good!
Thanks everybody for all the great help!!!

[HayZee518]

All is not lost Bob! Glad we were able to help out!