Win98 SE & D-Link DWL-G630, Strange???

[herbf56]

Here is a strange problem encountered attempting to install the D-Link network card on my Gateway SOLO 2150 Laptop:

During driver installation and after install is completed, receive the following ERROR codes (in that order):

#1 : The ATHCFG11.DLL file is linked to missing export IPHLPAPI.DLL:GetPerAdapterInfo.

#2 : C:\ProgramFiles\D-Link\AirPlus G Wireless Adapter Utility\AirPlus.exe
A device attached to the system is not functioning.

The same messages pop up if I click on the Wireless Utility Icon on the desktop (provided by the dlink install).

Now here to the strange part:

I am able to open IE and cruise the internet without any problems!

However, when I attempt to set up networking, it keeps telling me, that there is no network card/hardware binstalled.

My network consists of the following:

Direcway DW6000 Satelite Modem, connected to DI-524 Router and that connected via CAT5 Cable to my Desktop PC, a Dell-4500 running Win XP.

When I follow the networking instructions from XP and using the XP disk to install the network installer on the 98se, again se tells me that no hardware is detected.

I have been in contact with D-Link tech support, they tell me (after a whole week of every night for several hours talking to them) to return the card because it is not compatible with 98se (even so it is advertised as being compatible!).

So, I insstalled the latest Win98 updates and then went to Wal-Mart and got a Lynksys WPC54G card to see if it would work in my 98se laptop.

Good thing I never took the card out of the secure package, because just the installation of the drivers on my laptop caused a fatal explorer exception, with the message to reinstall the OS.
The PC would not boot in to windows after that, had to do a clean install of 98 se.

After the clean install, installed the D-Link card and it continues to behave in the above mentioned fashion.

Any ideas from anybody would be appreciated.

[bAdWaYz]

Sounds to me like the ATHCFG11.DLL that your wireless card uses is trying or is linked to the IPHLPAPI.DLL that is missing in windows. Try downloading the IPHLPAPI.DLL file and installing it. Have a look here for the .dll you need file (http://www.ascentive.com/support/new/dll_iphlpapi.phtml) This link shows you where on the system this file should be so I'd check to see if it in fact is really there and if so then I'd rename it, download the new file and install it. I'm going to do some more reading on this topic but thats my first stab at your prob.

[herbf56]

Thank's for your reply.
I followed the instructions. Had to boot Win98se in to safe mode first, renamed the old .dll file and moved the downloaded one in to it's place.

After reboot, same problem and error messages.

I am pretty much out of ideas.

Herb

[gowcher]

I have the same problem as herbf56, I contacted dlink support and I got the usual " uninstall reinstall the drivers ", when that failed it was download the latest from our website - I did even though it was version 3.00 - the same as the CD. Uninstalled existing stuff, reinstalled the downloaded stuff - still got same error.
So at this point I did a bit of digging around and came across a web posting that said "GetPerAdapterInfo" was only available in win2k and above. Also after uninstalling the drivers so many times I noticed that the ATHCFG11.DLL is installed by the dlink install. At first I thought it was native to win98.

Putting the above two bits of info together I am guessing Dlink did the following. Dlink wrote the drivers for win2k, XP. They tested on these 2 platforms everything worked fine. As a bit of an afterthought they recompiled them for Win98 on a win2k or up machine ( and so the GetPerAdapterInfo would be in the iphlpapi.dll ) but didn't really test on win98 where getPerAdapterInfo isn't exported in the dll.

But you know what I think the most disconcerting thing is ? When I phoned up their tech support , they told me NO ONE absolutely NO ONE had a problem with win98 and these drivers. That is down right dishonest in my book especially considering herbf56 being told that the card is not compatible with win98 ! I know you could say the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, but they have all these tech support calls logged in a database. And I specifically asked the guy to do a search so see if there were any other problems - of course he said no !

[greg###]

I've run into the same problem sort of problem with the D-Link DWL-G630 on Windows 98 SE.

The problem: Though the DWL-G630 shows "device is working properly" in
device manager, when I boot with the card in or manually run D-Link
AirPlus G Wireless Utility, I get two errors:

C:\Program Files\D-Link\AirPlus G Wireless Adapter Utility\AirPlus.exe
A device attached to the system is not working.

AND

The ATHCFG11.DLL file is
linked to missing export IPHLPAPI.DLL:GetPerAdapterInfo

The IPHLPAPI.DLL file is in fact present as a hidden file in
C:\Windows\System. I ran the system check, and it did not find that file
to be corrupt.

I've uninstalled and re-installed; the problem remains. The card works fine on my XP machine.

D-Link tech support told me to check Windows update (nothing, except for a driver for my ethernet card; I can't unload that because this refurbished laptop I bought came with the Windows sticker on the bottom but no Windows 98 SE CD). He also said he'd email me a document about installing the D-Link AirPlus G Wireless Utility software, but I haven't received that yet.

Has anyone had any further insights on how to get this to run on a 98 SE machine?

[gowcher]

For all those trying to get the DWL-G630 ( my card was rev C ) working with Windows 98 SE :

Download a new iphlpapi.dll from :

http://tech.wadsnet.net/download/dll/win98/

Click on iphlpapi.dll to download the file. I downloaded it to the root of my C drive ( C:\ )

I then "rebooted" win98 into DOS mode ( Restart in MS_DOS mode from the start button ).

Once in MS-DOS mode I did :

cd c:\windows\system
rename iphlpapi.dll _iphlpapi.dll
copy c:\iphlpapi.dll . <- Yes thats a space then a dot

type exit to quit DOS mode and windows will restart.

On restarting log in again, and hopefully this time round you won't get the error and you'll see the signal strength bars in the lower right task bar tray.

HTH

Note: Under windows if you look at the version of this iphlpapi.dll it says it's for windows 2000, but it does work on Win98SE. And in fact previous to this I HAD TRIED copying iphlpapi.dll from a windows 2000 system I have to my 98, but it wanted a whole load of dll's from a windows 2k system so I gave up on that.

Note 2: If it doesn't work for you go back into dos mode and copy the renamed file ( _iphlpapi.dll ) back to iphpapi.dll.

[junebug1701]

Thanks to Gowcher, I had the same problem with my Toshiba Satellite and the 630 card. After 1 email and 3 tech support calls to dlink, the tech found your solution using a Google search. I'm sitting in the La-Z-boy typing this wirelessly thanks to you, Gowcher! :wave:

James

[duanebaxter]

Hey, I thank gowcher for solving the problem with those errors with the dwl-g630 with windows 98. I have the same problem with mine. I was trying to follow the directions that gowcher gave in MS DOS but I couldn't quite follow because I'm a DOS idiot. Can someone please give me detailed instructions concerning renaming and copying the dll file in MS DOS? :dizzy:

Thanks, Duane.

[duanebaxter]

I figured out a typo that I was doing in DOS. I fixed it just a minute ago and restarted the computer and all is well! Thanks for your work gowcher! :wave:

Duane

[geckschm]

Thank you everybody for this thread. I believe D-Link should hand its collective head in shame, for stating that the DWL-G630 will work with WIN98, when in fact it does not. Also, one of their "advisors" informed me that it needs 600MHz and 128Kb, when in fact the box containing the equipment reads 300MHz and 64Kb. That was all he said. Shortlu after another fellow copied exactly the message contained in this link, of downloading and installing a WIN2K file. I did, it worked, again thank you.

FYI, Google for Boingo. It made the card work, but after the D-Link software became operational, the Boingo crashed. BTW, it is a better looking software than D-Link's.

Is not it the shame that a large manufacturer has the guts to market equipment with false claims, and their support staff has to refer to a third party information to make it work? I was a Quality Director for a subsidiary of a large multinational. If this multinational made software like D-Link, most commercial airliners would become lawn-darts in a short order.

Merry Christmas to all.

George

[bAdWaYz]

Nice work with this issue geckschm. I agree with you that a company as big as D-Link should be aware and care if the products they make aren't working for some people. The fact that most if not all the people I know that had this issue called tech support and got the run around makes me wonder if I will ever buy a D-Link product. The fact that a user of this forum tracked down the info for the fix then posted it for others to see speaks alot about our users. So thank you geckschm well done. I think we owe you lunch heheh.

[MDalach]

I also had the same problem. The only help I got from D-Link with the problem was and I quote:

"Suggested to the customer to either update the BIOS, download the latest updates from Microsoft's website or download the latest drivers from the Dlink website. IF all the recommendend solutions fail...the customer may have a defective card."

The NIC was not defective and having done all these things before I called D-Link I was very frustrated until I found your thread about the identical problem I had. The solution of replacing the "iphlpapi.dll" with a Win2K version did the trick for me.

Thanks again..

[Trane]

... first child after you. No, wait. He's already got a name. So, the second one will be it. Gowcher Alberto Maria Sanchez Rodrigues Uribe. Nice ring, eh?

No, seriously, the trick works like a charm. Last time I'm going to buy a D-Link product, if they're going to have misleading box requirements and not even mention the issue in their support page.;)

[hcole]

I am trying to use the DWL-G630 on two laptops: Gateway 5100, Dell
Latitude, both with Win98SE.

When I encountered the "missing IPHLPAPI.DLL" setting up the Gateway, I called D-Link. A sharp tech support person referred me to this Cyberhelp site. Following Gowcher's suggestion I downloaded the IPHLPAPI.DLL he posted, and it solved the problem. DWL-G630 works fine in ONE slot in the Gateway (but, curiously) not in the other.

Now the fun began. I purchased a second card for the Dell. Replaced the
IPHLPAPI.DLL, and installation appeared to go smoothly. Was able to connect
to access point. BUT, I cannot connect to the network (even though I have
access). If I "ping" an IP on my network I get "no response". Outlook Express
and Internet Explorer say there is no network connection. Duh. I called DLink
and got the usual "reinstall drivers" response. Did that (both from CD and from web site)...no joy. The only difference I can see is that the cardbus
addapter (and DWL) on the Gateway is located at Interrupt Request 10, and
on the Dell it is Interrupt Request 11.

Any suggestions as how to get Win98 to "talk to" the DWL-G630 that it appears to see.

Thanks much.

[macattack]

I was having the identical problem that gowcher reported (with the 630 card on 98SE), and swapping out the IPHLPAPI.DLL with the 2k version got me past the error msg, and I have the wireless connection to the router... but windows does not seem to be seeing the 630 as a network adapter. If I pull up winipcfg or ipconfig/all, all I see if the PPP adapter.

Hence, I have no TCP/IP over wireless... yet TCP/IP is bound to the 630 card in the Network settings.

Anyone have any ideas?

TIA

p.s., I have re-installed everything, after hacking the DLL, but still have the same problem.

p.p.s., I just noticed hcole's post above, who reports a similar problem, and my problem is also on a Dell laptop (Latitude CPi).

[hcole]

Hello.....
Yesterday I posted a problem I had with DLink DWL-G630 in a Dell Latitude
laptop. After getting computer to "talk to" access point (by replacing
IPHLPAPI.DLL) I could not get computer to "talk to" card. All system and
network checks showed card was installed and working, and all network
parameters were correct. My note generated another note with a similar
problem.

On the verge of giving up, I did a clean install of Win98SE (from a Ghost
image I made when I set up the computer). Viola....the DWL-G630 worked!!

My suspicion is this: In the Dell, a couple of months ago I let Microsoft "update" the Win98SE on the Dell (but not on the Gateway in which I had successfully gotten the DWL-G630 to work after the IPHLPAPI fix). I think the OS update changed something which made the OS not recognize the DLink drivers. I talked to DLink today and the tech said that this is a
common problem with XP....and could be the same with Win98.

Anyway, the DWL-G630 now seems to be working. Its too much effort to
"update" Win98 again (and probably have to go thru the DLink fix again) to
verify my suspicion.

By the way, I chose DLink because I had a LOT of problems with a Linksys
WPC45G. I could never get the problems resolved, so my local computer
store let me sway the Linksys card for the DLink card.

[Daethian]

I have a DWL-923 wireless router and laptop card I just purchased. I am able to get online with my wired PC's. With my Dell laptop that is running Win98SE, I had the same error posted here. I downloaded the dll file from the link you provided but it was a exe and wouldn't work. So I used google to find another. I installed it and now I am getting this:

iphlpapi.dll file is linked to missing export NTDLL.DLL:Rtllpv6AddressToSTringA.

I am able to get online though...weird.

Any ideas please???

[shatt3red]

ARRG!! THis is the link that Dlink gave to me. it still doesnt work! I tried everything, but could it be that I have enabled all caps names?

[1global]

I have a similar problem going on now with my old Toshiba Tecra 510CDT laptop (Pentium I 133mhz 48MB Ram) with Windows 98SE. I got the error message about the missing iphlpapi.dll file. I went to dll-files.com and downloaded the file, copied it into windows/system...now I get the error message "The IPHLPAPI.DLL file is linked to missing export
NTDLL.DLL:Rtllpv6AddressToStringA". Tech support (Belkin) had no answer for me other than to get an older card. I don't buy that so I'm going to try the fix as prescribed above. Belkin was the only card at Staples that said that it worked with Windows. When I check the device manager Windows sees the card and says it's working properly. I can't get online at all.

[karlk123]

I had the same issue with the DWL-G6309 card in an HP laptop with Win 98SE. After following the instructions to download theiphlpapi.dll, then rename the old one and copy it to the \windows\system dir, the laptop was rebooted and the card found! I was able to make a link with my AP but not get onto the internet. I rebooted again, but to no avail.

I did have success by going to a DOS window and using ipconfig to release the adapters (I have an ethernet card installed too), then renew them. Voila, the network connection works. I suspect if you reinstalled Win 98SE, it did a similar thing in the process. My steps were:

ipconfig /release_all
>> sets all adapters to 0.0.0.0
ipconfig /renew_all
>> this takes some time, so be patient. When it's done after a minute or so, the adapters resync with the network and likely have the same IP address.
exit the DOS window

My laptop connection was immediate. It's weird that rebooting the laptop didn't do this, but I've been told that Windows does hold some info in cache, and this forced resync might just flush the cache.

[asauder]

I am pretty weak at DOS. Could someone post a detailed step by step for Gowcher's Step 2. I would greatly appreciate it.
I followed this procedure and it corrected the problem that everyone has referred to however now I cannot communicate with the router. Further on in the thread someone resolved this by resetting the ip address to 0000 I may try this however would want to be sure of reversing the above procedure as well.

Thanks
Art


For all those trying to get the DWL-G630 ( my card was rev C ) working with Windows 98 SE :

Download a new iphlpapi.dll from :

http://tech.wadsnet.net/download/dll/win98/

Click on iphlpapi.dll to download the file. I downloaded it to the root of my C drive ( C:\ )

I then "rebooted" win98 into DOS mode ( Restart in MS_DOS mode from the start button ).

Once in MS-DOS mode I did :

cd c:\windows\system
rename iphlpapi.dll _iphlpapi.dll
copy c:\iphlpapi.dll . <- Yes thats a space then a dot

type exit to quit DOS mode and windows will restart.

On restarting log in again, and hopefully this time round you won't get the error and you'll see the signal strength bars in the lower right task bar tray.

HTH

Note: Under windows if you look at the version of this iphlpapi.dll it says it's for windows 2000, but it does work on Win98SE. And in fact previous to this I HAD TRIED copying iphlpapi.dll from a windows 2000 system I have to my 98, but it wanted a whole load of dll's from a windows 2k system so I gave up on that.

Note 2: If it doesn't work for you go back into dos mode and copy the renamed file ( _iphlpapi.dll ) back to iphpapi.dll.

[asauder]

Hi

I have tried gowcher's solution. It corrected the problem described however my laptop now cant talk to the router so I want to reverse the procedure as described in his Note #2 "Note 2: If it doesn't work for you go back into dos mode and copy the renamed file ( _iphlpapi.dll ) back to iphpapi.dll."

I am a DOS idiot Would greatly appreciate it if someone could post the detailed entry to make when doing this.
Many thanks
Art

[Snurfen]

I am a DOS idiot Would greatly appreciate it if someone could post the detailed entry to make when doing this.
Many thanks
Art

Art, get to a dos prompt by clicking on
start>run> then type in cmd or command (the latter in 98, I think)
This should bring up a dos screen (white typeface on black background).
You want to get to a stage where the command prompt is C:\>
If it isnt that, type in
cd..
until you get the c:\> prompt (what you've done is Change Directory until you've reached the root of the c drive).

Follow gowchers letters to the "t" excluding the bit I've highlighted in red and you'll be in business (here they are again)

cd c:\windows\system
rename iphlpapi.dll _iphlpapi.dll
copy c:\iphlpapi.dll . <- Yes thats a space then a dot

What that is doing is taking you into the subfolder system in the windows directory, renaming a file from the first name to one starting with an underscore, so the system doesn't recognise it when it is called. the last line is copying the file you downloaded onto the root of c and sticking it in your current directory without modifying it;s name.
Bingo, job done!

good luck mate.

[asauder]

Thanks Snurfen. To reverse the process as per gowchers note #2 ????? Would you go to
c:\ windows\system and enter copy _iphlpapi.dll iphlpapi.dll ?

[Snurfen]

yep, you've got it, but first you would have to rename the existing .dll to something else, otherwise it would clash, for example:

copy c:\iphlpapi.dll iphlpapi.old

so you'd be renaming the one currently in use to .old thus allowing yourself to copy a file in using the proper name, as in:

copy c:\_iphlpapi.dll iphlpapi.dll

Cheers.

[shatt3red]

if anyone can actually help me out with this
the soultion doesnt work for me!
my AIM is twelvevoltoutlet
thanks

[Daethian]

When I tried renaming through DOS it wouldn't let me do it.

[houstonr@theglo]

Im having a similar problem with a Netgear PCMCIA wireless adapter. I can install the software, but it won't recognize the router (a microsoft router). I can go into command mode, renew the IP addresses, but then I get this miserable IPHLPAPI.dll not reading error that crashes the machine.

Any thoughts on this? Spent 4 hours w/ their tech support to no avail--they blame it on this file being corrupted...

Without the adapter in place, all works fine. In fact a USB microsoft adapter works fine.

Help?

Robin

[clfogg]

I'm having the same problem with my d-link dwl-g630 that I just purchased for an old compaq machine (running win 98SE with 700MHz), getting the two errors listed on an earlier posting. After google-ing it and before I found this great site I found -on the D-Link site no less- the www.boingo.com (http://www.boingo.com) software to use instead! Yes, D-Link has finally come out and said ' if you can't get this to work on Win 98SE, download the free Wi-Fi software from Boingo , they even give the number to Boingo Tech Support!!!!
http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1914&question=DWL-G630_revC

So I got rid of the D-Link software (not the drivers), installed Boingo and it works! The only problem is that it seems pretty slow. I'm using a b router and I saw on some site that someone was using a g card on a b router, it was slow so they tried changing the mps on the card setup from auto to 11 and that seemed to help (it kept looking for a faster connection maybe?). But the problem is that the Boingo software doesn't have that capability since it's not card specific and I never got the D-Link software to work so I don't know if that has the ability either. If anybody has gotten the D-Link software to work, do you know if there is a place to change that, or any other reason it'd be so slow? This shouldn't be this hard!!! I'm glad I only paid 19.99 for this card after rebates!! ;)

Thanks!! clfogg

[Daethian]

Well I tried Boingo but it won't work for me. I have to have the Dlink stuff installed and I can't figure out how to configure it.

[carguy56]

I had similar problems and finally removed Dlink software and installed the Boingo program. The network is good now. Dlink support wasn't real helpful. The only issue is that the 2 lights on the adapter are constantly flashing. They never stop. Also on reboot the error message says the adapter is not working correctly and needs to be reinstalled. If you go to the device manager and refresh it everything is good. I am using a Compaq Presario laptop with an AMD K6 266. I tried installing XP but it ran too slow.

[Daethian]

I must be too stupid to figure out Boingo. I can't get online with it and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

[nhendrix]

I'm about ready to take this DWL-G630 card back to the store. While I'm at it I think I'll take the DI-524 router back too even tho' it's working okay.

I've tried all the fixes suggested here and actually got my laptop online late last night using Boingo but then...I got an email from D-Link Tech Support that led me to this forum and the Iphlpapi.dll fix. Thinking that I'd rather use the Dlink S/W instead of a 3rd party S/W, I removed Boingo fixed the .dll and then found out I still couldn't get a connection to the network. I reinstalled Boingo but now it's messed up too. It is able to see and associate with the network but won't connect to it. I've deleted the Dlink S/W, released and renewed IP addresses... no luck.

If anyone, who understands this wifi stuff, has any ideas on what I might try next...please suggest something. But, do it quick because I'm close to calling it quits (until I spring for a new laptop at least).

[bAdWaYz]

I take it you are also using windows 98se?

[carguy56]

:dizzy: i'm taking all this d link stuff back and trying for something that actually works with 98se

[shatt3red]

yea OK I wish I could but I cant! They wont take it back for the reason of I lost the box. SO I need some help. I got it working until I restarted. I gotta figure out how to do this!!!!!!!!!!

Now, I need STEP BY STEP instructions on how to install boingo or whatever the heck it is. So if you could that would be great. Thanks.

[Daethian]

I'm stuck with mine too, I bought it off of ebay.

I'm concerned about securing my network now ... since I have no way to access anything. I'm not sure how to get Boingo to work either.

I'm beyond disgusted that DLINK won't FIX this but instead is sending people here or to Boingo. I will never buy another DLINK product. :disgust:

[tucsongirl]

Hi, I just found this forum. I just got a D-Link DI-524 and DWL-630 along with the PCI card for my desktop. I previously tried the Netgear 614 and 511 but couldn't get them to talk to each other so I returned them. I'm not much of a techie, so it was probably me, but from reading forums, it sounds like maybe it wasn't.

Anyway, I thought you all might find this interesting. I called D-Link to find out if WPA will work with Win98SE (Belkin said only XP does). This is what they said: "We don't support encryption". What!!! "Encryption is an advanced feature and we don't support it". What if I had XP? "We don't support encryption". Can I use WEP with 98SE? "We don't support encryption".

Has anybody heard this one before? No matter that the boxes say they support both 98SE and WPA. "We don't support encryption".!!!!

After much back and forth, he offered to email me the links explaining how to set up WEP and WPA but "we don't support encryption".

I had WPA set up on the Netgear so this is probably why I couldn't get the laptop to connect. Now I find out that I need a 3rd-party supplicant too!

Sorry for the rant. I'm sure you've heard it all before. I guess I'll set it all up and try Boingo and/or T-Mobile and/or the DLL file. If it doesn't work I can always return it (thanks Circuit City) but what a scam! You practically need an MCSE to install this stuff! Or is it a ploy by Microsoft to force us all to become XP beta-testers, oops, I mean users.

[galaxytoyz]

Thanks for all the help everyone has offered with this problem. First time with wireless and we had to buy Dlink? It's works where we had the laptop upgraded, but no where else. Downloaded Boingo, did the download for the .dll file (the file Dlink sent me a link to) did not work. Finally realized that the file download mentioned in this forum is a different location, I tried that. Got a signal, got it working...until the next morning when we turned on the laptop...nothing!!! New problem..fatal errors!!!
Last night I removed Dlink, just left Boingo. Even at home, out in the country, I got a signal. Husband took it to work today and did not call me for help. That is a good sign.
Thanks to this chat....Thanks to Boingo...No thanks to Dlink. (got the same letter with the same bad information twice)
When I downloaded the .dll file I just did a normal download to win systems and told it to "overwrite" the file. Worked good and did not have to go into DOS.
Thanks to everyone and thank you for making it easy to do for a non-hardware person like me!

[Snurfen]

Hey galaxytoyz, wierd you should repost to this thread today as I was setting up a DLINK router and modem this morning for the kids.

COnsists of a DI-614+ wireless router and DSL-300G+ ADSL modem (yeah, I know they are only .11b, but it doesn't make a heck of a lot of difference as they are just internet sharing on a 2mbs ADSL line).

Strange thing is, it all went together like a dream AFTER I remembered the "setting up" pc has to be on the same subnet as the router (192.168.0.x). My, how I laughed!

Ran through all the updates etc and help pages to show my son what it was all about. We were directed to the UK site, and it was really useful. Just wonder (from all the posts) if it is just the stateside phone support that is rubbish. The FAQs were particularly good, as were the indepth manuals (as opposed to the quickstart guides) on the cd for the router.

To sum up, it's all still fresh in my mind, so if you are stuck, post back. The pages I used were found by going to www.support.dlink.com (http://www.suppot.dlink.com) then inoutting the model number, then ollowing the link to the knowledge base.

Another good part of the site is if you go to the downloads section, select the link relating to "if your not from the Us click here" or similar and have a mosey round there.

[galaxytoyz]

Everything is working great, with the Dlink software deleted and only using Boingo..no problem. Like someone above said, the lights blink differently. You have to clink the the "B" to find a connection, it won't connect on it's own. With our old laptop and the upgrade to Win 98SE, it take awhile for everything to boot. At least we can live with this until we get a new unit with built-in wireless.

[porttack]

I had the same problem with DLL errors installing the D-link G630 into my dell latitude with Windows 98SE. My first call to D-link produced the usual "...reinstall, its a windows problem" response. My second call netted the advice to install the Boingo program instead of the D-link utility.

I did that and the laptop now connects to the wireless network provided that I don't use any encription/security. When I try to use 64 bit WEP encription Boingo is no longer able to connect to the network although it does ask for the passphrase.

I called D-link about this problem and they told me that security generally does not work with 98SE.

Anyone have any experience with this issue?

[worf]

Ok... I had the same problem. this is what I did: I MANUALLY updated the driver using the Device Manager and the D-Link OEM CD. I manually pointed to the CD drive (D:\drivers/driver for the correct driver and let it run the installation. It gave me an Error - NET5211.CAT can not be found on the CD. It is located in the D:\drivers. Re ran it from there and it asked for my Win 98 SE CD. Thats about it.

[Hibiscus]

I'm stuck with mine too, I bought it off of ebay.

I'm concerned about securing my network now ... since I have no way to access anything. I'm not sure how to get Boingo to work either.

I'm beyond disgusted that DLINK won't FIX this but instead is sending people here or to Boingo. I will never buy another DLINK product. :disgust:

I had the same experience: bought my kit at Amazon because it claimed to work with Win 98. I've tried installing the .dll file I got from DLink when I sent in a customer service request, which included a link to this site. I've never heard of a vendor sending someone to a cyberhelp site for a solution to problems their product is causing. I've just sent in another ticket to DLink for help, because the new .dll file hasn't worked yet. I'm very frustrated at this point. I haven't even tried to install the router yet because I'm hung up trying to make this *&^%$# card work! I wouldn't have bought it if I'd known it didn't work with Win 98!

[mineralsprings]

I had to register today just so I could share my experience with the DWL-G630.

I atempted to install the card in an ancient WinBook Si running Windows 98SE and had the same problems. Two different D-Link tech support people gave me the same advice others have gotten: the first guy had me download a new driver off the D-Link site, the second sent me to Boingo. Sound familiar? :dizzy: It's now June 26, 2005 and it looks like they've been aware that these fixes don't work since mid-2004, based on this forum's post dates.:angry: Nice guys, but bad info. Once I had boingo installed, I could sometimes communicate with the WAP but still got the error messages.

Many thanks to this forum, which I discovered from a Yahoo search. I first downloaded and installed the .dll update suggested by gowcher. I used the one he linked to (linked site said it was for Win98; there was another one for 98SE but I took gowcher's word for it and used the one he suggested) and that process went smoothly. Yep, as expected the D-Link software ran fine and recognized the wireless card, but couldn't connect with the D-Link software or Boingo.

I then took karlk123's suggestion and ran the ipconfig update. I was then able to get a conection, but the conection would abrubtly be lost after 30 seconds or so. I finally disabled Boingo and took it out of the startup folder...BINGO, it boots up, recognizes the card, gives me the icon in the tray, and connects...FLAWLESSLY!! :thumbsup: Boingo and the D-Link software were apparently fighting over something.

Ummm...does anybody wonder why D-Link doesn't simply incorporate these two patches into a new install CD? I sure do... :confused:

I'm very pleased with the performance of the D-Link card and software in spite of their sloppy implementation, and am AMAZED by this site. Thanks, gowcher and karlk123!

Bookmarked! :thumbsup:

[bAdWaYz]

Thanks for posting and welcome to CTH. Sadly I don't think dlink will ever do anything to fix this issue. They should at least point folks to a place to get help with it "cough" like CTH :)

[Snurfen]

Welcome to CTH, mineralsprings. :wave:
Great to hear this excellent forum was of use to you. There are some very clever (not to mention PATIENT) helpers here, they've always delivered the goods when I've got myself cross-threaded ;)
Get stuck in and lets see more of ya!

[shatt3red]

Yes, I just gave up on D-link. I've tried the DLL trick ever since christmas and havent gotten it to work. I tried boingo and that failed. In the end I got a belken G card. It works much better and seems to be much more 98SE compatible. I mean, its a lot less flashy of a program then boingo and the D-link utility. (Save the installation)
But thanks to all of you who helped out in this case for me.

[valubuilder]

ok, for all of you who have tried Gowcher's fix and 123Karl's... and it still does not work try this:
(you have to have the new .dll for this to work)

go to Start and then Programs
select the Startup folder
Right click on D-link
Choose delete
Right click on Boingo
Choose delete

Reboot your computer

when it comes back up, do not open Either Boingo or D-link from your desktop

Open Internet Explorer and see if it works!

I was doing everything that everyone said in here... and mine was not working. I tried this simple little thing... and bingo... I am online <smiles>

[stever]

Had all the problems listed in this topic. 3 days of messing around finally got it going.

D-Link tech support was no help whatsoever, basically told me to get a different card.

The windows system file replace trick would not get the D-link app running

Boingo would not connect to any network I tried.

Downloaded the T-Mobile connection manager and that finally got me a connection. YEAH

Still have not solved the problem of Windows not recognizing the card at startup. Still have to go to the hardware manager and click REFRESH twice to get the card going.

My advice to anyone buying this card to run on an W98SE OS, "DON'T"

[Public]

I just wanted to say thanks to Gowcher. I was having the exact same problem, but with a Trendware wireless card and the .dll file was crypt32 instead of iphlpapi. I was trying to install this card on 98 not 98 SE. I followed you steps on replacing the .dll file and all my errors disappeared.

DECEPTOR

[badmojo]

For all those trying to get the DWL-G630 ( my card was rev C ) working with Windows 98 SE :

Download a new iphlpapi.dll from :

http://tech.wadsnet.net/download/dll/win98/

Click on iphlpapi.dll to download the file. I downloaded it to the root of my C drive ( C:\ )

I then "rebooted" win98 into DOS mode ( Restart in MS_DOS mode from the start button ).

Once in MS-DOS mode I did :

cd c:\windows\system
rename iphlpapi.dll _iphlpapi.dll
copy c:\iphlpapi.dll . <- Yes thats a space then a dot

type exit to quit DOS mode and windows will restart.

On restarting log in again, and hopefully this time round you won't get the error and you'll see the signal strength bars in the lower right task bar tray.

HTH

Note: Under windows if you look at the version of this iphlpapi.dll it says it's for windows 2000, but it does work on Win98SE. And in fact previous to this I HAD TRIED copying iphlpapi.dll from a windows 2000 system I have to my 98, but it wanted a whole load of dll's from a windows 2k system so I gave up on that.

Note 2: If it doesn't work for you go back into dos mode and copy the renamed file ( _iphlpapi.dll ) back to iphpapi.dll.

Gowcher this advice actually remedied my Toshiba Satellite (Win XP SP2) problem too. I found the dll on the web and replaced it in the windows/system32 file and the servicepack i386 file (under windows). Now the Dlink drivers install properly and everything is a-ok. Thanks man.