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Hi, I am a beginner in digital pictures. Just got an IOGEAR GFR202SD card
reader. Contrary to what I saw on a downloaded manual, there doesn't seem
to be a driver for Windows 98 SE.

Windows sees that it's plugged in to USB, but can't access it because of
lack of driver.

I called Provantage twice, emailed, and also emailed IOGEAR. No help so
far, no reply to emails.

Advice, please.

Thanks,

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"Shel" <sisaac.control@netaccess.control.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I am a beginner in digital pictures. Just got an IOGEAR GFR202SD card
> reader. Contrary to what I saw on a downloaded manual, there doesn't seem
> to be a driver for Windows 98 SE.
>
> Windows sees that it's plugged in to USB, but can't access it because of
> lack of driver.
>
> I called Provantage twice, emailed, and also emailed IOGEAR. No help so
> far, no reply to emails.
>
> Advice, please.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Sheldon Isaac

Strange,

According to this;
http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc [...] m=GFR202SD

it supports
Windows® 2000, ME, XP

Whereas the manual puts 98 in that list as well.

web search finds no driver.

You may be out of luck :-(

Did you try having Windows do a search on the net for the driver as part of
the install (did 98 do that? cant recall)

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Good morning,Tumbleweed:
> Strange,
>
> According to this;
> http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc [...] m=GFR202SD
>
> it supports
> Windows® 2000, ME, XP
>
> Whereas the manual puts 98 in that list as well.
>
> web search finds no driver.
>
> You may be out of luck :-(

Yep, I looked, and Provantage says "No returns"

> Did you try having Windows do a search on the net for the driver as
part of
> the install (did 98 do that? cant recall)

Um, I don't understand that.
I plugged it in, Windows found a "UB6220", looked for a driver in its
database & on the Windows installation CD.
I also downloaded and installed a few drivers from IOGEAR and even from
PNY.

Don't know how these work - isn't there a generic driver that works
with these USB reader/writer things?

Thanks,
Sheldon

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<sheldonisaac@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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Good morning,Tumbleweed:
> Strange,
>
> According to this;
> http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc [...] m=GFR202SD
>
> it supports
> Windows® 2000, ME, XP
>
> Whereas the manual puts 98 in that list as well.
>
> web search finds no driver.
>
> You may be out of luck :-(

Yep, I looked, and Provantage says "No returns"

> Did you try having Windows do a search on the net for the driver as
part of
> the install (did 98 do that? cant recall)

Um, I don't understand that.
I plugged it in, Windows found a "UB6220", looked for a driver in its
database & on the Windows installation CD.
I also downloaded and installed a few drivers from IOGEAR and even from
PNY.

Don't know how these work - isn't there a generic driver that works
with these USB reader/writer things?

Thanks,
Sheldon

When you install on WIn XP it can also go and serach on the net for drivers
then.

SOunds like you should ebay it and buy something else. OR see if there are
any takers here
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<sheldonisaac@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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>Don't know how these work - isn't there a generic driver that works
>with these USB reader/writer things?


p.s...usually yes, but only with XP.

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Try this Microsoft patch

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] S;Q240075&

Shel wrote:
> Hi, I am a beginner in digital pictures. Just got an IOGEAR GFR202SD card
> reader. Contrary to what I saw on a downloaded manual, there doesn't seem
> to be a driver for Windows 98 SE.
>
> Windows sees that it's plugged in to USB, but can't access it because of
> lack of driver.
>
> I called Provantage twice, emailed, and also emailed IOGEAR. No help so
> far, no reply to emails.
>
> Advice, please.
>
> Thanks,
>

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Shel <sisaac.control@netaccess.control.com> wrote:

> Hi, I am a beginner in digital pictures. Just got an IOGEAR GFR202SD
> card reader. Contrary to what I saw on a downloaded manual, there
> doesn't seem to be a driver for Windows 98 SE.
>
> Windows sees that it's plugged in to USB, but can't access it because
> of lack of driver.
>
> I called Provantage twice, emailed, and also emailed IOGEAR. No help
> so far, no reply to emails.
>
> Advice, please.
>
> Thanks,
>

The driver is at
<http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc=dm&driver&Item=GHE135U>

This took me 5 seconds to find with Google.

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I've never been good at finding info. However, I had seen
that ION_98.ZIP; it was one of the ones I downloaded.

It didn't enable Windows to access the IOGEAR "Pocket Memory R/W
Drive", GFR202SD.

Perhaps there's a specific procedure? Remove certain devices or
whatever first, using Device Manager? or what?

Thanks, Sheldon

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Thanks, I looked at
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] S;Q240075&

Apparently my computer was supposed to have uhcd.sys, which it didn't,
so I downloaded and installed the patch. Although my USB mouse and USB
thumb drive etc had been working fine previously. Also the recent Casio
camera connection.

After the patch, USB stopped working, so I removed it in Device
Manager, restarted, plugged in the hub with mouse and DataTraveler,
and am back to where I was before.

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In alt.comp.periphs.dcameras "CSM1" <nomoremail@nomail.com> wrote:
> Not likely, the manufacturer has to provide the Windows 98 driver.
> As far as I know, there is not a generic Mass storage driver for
> Windows 98.
>
> Of course if you were a Master Programmer, you could write the mass
> storage driver for Windows 98.
>
> I would dump the Iogear and get another card reader that works in
> Windows 98. (Check the specs before buying).

Sheldon replied:
Thanks, CSM1, I probably will give this little USB thing to a friend
with XP.

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"Shel" <sisaac.control@netaccess.control.com> wrote in message
news:Xns962B5F3E38593sisaacATnetaxsDOTcom@207.106.93.5...
> Hi, I am a beginner in digital pictures. Just got an IOGEAR GFR202SD card
> reader. Contrary to what I saw on a downloaded manual, there doesn't seem
> to be a driver for Windows 98 SE.
>
> Windows sees that it's plugged in to USB, but can't access it because of
> lack of driver.
>
> I called Provantage twice, emailed, and also emailed IOGEAR. No help so
> far, no reply to emails.
>
> Advice, please.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Sheldon Isaac
> lose all .control when replying

Do you have any other USB mass storage drivers for Win98SE? For example,
drivers for a Lexar JumpDrive? I have the impression that the computer
"sees" all mass-storage devices as the same sort of thing, though I'm not
sure this is true with Win98SE.

It is certainly surprising that Iogear doesn't offer Win98SE drivers for
their product. Since you have nothing to lose, you might try downloading the
Win98SE drivers from some other external hard drive makers such as Maxtor
and/or Western Digital and see if they work with your Iogear unit.

N.

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"Nostrobino" <not@home.today> wrote in message
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>
> It is certainly surprising that Iogear doesn't offer Win98SE drivers for
> their product. Since you have nothing to lose, you might try downloading
> the Win98SE drivers from some other external hard drive makers such as
> Maxtor and/or Western Digital and see if they work with your Iogear unit.

Oops, make that some other flash-memory card reader such as Lexar or
Sandisk.

N.

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