I've purchased a used dell lattitude with all the cab
files deleted.  There is no Cd-rom drive, and I recieved
no floopies of the OS. Therefore I have to establish a
connection of some sorts in order to configure this
machine for a family member who just wants to use it to
access email. However, dial-up networking is not
installed, but tcpip and I have been able to install a nic
via the a: drive. Problem is for some reason, I can't get
the machine to recognize any ports other than com 1 and
lpt1.  No error messages, no conflicts in
devmgr,.....there simply not there. It did have policy
editor invoked so I deleted it to the recycle bin. I
assume this keeps poledit from invoking.  But how do I get
this nic to work for a network connection. I've even tried
to install the service whereby you can use the paralle or
com ports for networking, problem is they call for files
off of the installation media. I do have win95 cd-rom, but
again no cd-rom drive.  Your ideas/efforts are greatly
appreciated.