Network Adapter Woes

[spinoza]

OK
I just recently ran an update for my network adapter.
3Com Etherlink 10 PCI TPO NIC (3C900B-tpo)

It didn't like the update so well.

I'm running Win 98SE. I rebooted. I went into Device Manager and it showed a ? next to the adapter signalling something had gone amiss. I checked the Driver tab and found that the NDIS.VxD and NTKERNEL.VxD could not load the driver.

OK. Fine.

I removed the driver. I booted into safe mode to see if there maybe was another instance in there. I removed it as well. I rebooted to redetect the adapter. I have the drivers that i got from 3coms website for the adapter, I stepped through the Wizard, chose the Have Disk option and to my surprise it said that it could'nt find the right files for the adapter. All files have been extracted from the drivers that I downloaded. It just simply won't pick up the INF files that I obviously see in front of me!!!

What else can I do to get the OS to recognize the driver?
I even went so far as to physically remove the card and started up - man, it didn't like that at all. Something about how my configuration had changed and that I should run through Windows Setup again. Just ludricrous. So at that point I did a scanreg restore and had my System up and running again but still not able to get it to accept the drivers.

HELP!!!!!!

[jmatt]

Is a right click on the file needed ? then click install.

[spinoza]

Yeah. I went that route but no go.
I'm actually thinking now that this driver that i've got from 3Com isn't the right one after all. They say that it is good for all these Windows O/s's but when I extract them I only see files for Netware and WFW. There's no trace of '95 or '98. If someone can point me toward a driver that's actually going to work for '98 could you please let me know?

[spinoza]

I couldn't figure this thing out.
I finally decided it was a problem with the drivers or more specifically the way the drivers were extracted after I downloaded them. I couldn't understand why but the files for '98 were'nt being listed so I copied the downloaded file to my hard disk from the floppy and extracted them in a folder that I created. I then compared the size of the files extracted to the file that I downloaded(before extraction) and noticed that all the extracted files combined didn't come close to the size of the original downloaded file. That obviously meant that all of the files had not been successfully extracted.
I ran the downloaded executable again and there they were!!! All the INF files for '98. Such a simple oversight that caused a few hours of perplexion.