PortGear USBnet network w/ WIN-XP not working

Factual Questions
1

Back in the days of WIN95 I bought an Entrega USBNet USB to USB network device and I like to take it with my laptop. Entrega was bought by some other outfit and the USBnet device was renamed Netgear but it is the same thing. When I switched to WIN98 it did not work any more but I found a patch which made it work again. IIRC it replaces three DLLs. So in any WIN98 machine I run the installation and then the patch and it works.

Now I am trying to install the device in a WINXP machine and it totally refuses to install and I cannot find updated drivers online as it is a discontinued product.

Any ideas?

What would be the difference? I believe all it does is copy very few DLLs and make a few registry entries. It has to be really simple to make any changes.

2

USBNet was originally made by Entrega. Entrega was bought by Xircom who renamed the product Portgear. It seems Xircom was bought by Intel who in this page say:

Is there any hope? It cannot be very difficult to adapt the drivers or even write new ones. Where could I find them?

The installation process says some entry is missing in the INF file because it was written for WIN 9X. Maybe it is a matter of adding whatever entry is needed.

3

Can a kind moderator change the erroneous “USBNet-Netgear” in the title to the correct “PortGear USBnet”?

4

There are no kind moderators available at the moment, so I did it myself.