Problems installing network card ethernet 10100 NIC PCI

I bough a cheap network card 10-100 NIC PCI ethernet card and a cross over cable with the intent of conecting 2 PC's.

Anyway I had some problem's installing it with the supplied installation disk. At some point during the installation disk it would say 'insert your windows98SE CDROM', I have just windows98 not 98SE but I stuck that disk in anyway. Then it tries to copy a pile of files off that disk but it says it can't find them, so basically it fails to install. I have had a 'browse' of my windows98 disk (and disk which came with the card, but I could not seem to find the files either).

The files concerned (probably over 40 of em) were named such as - dhcpcsvc.dll, icmp.dll Routetab.dll etc.... I noticed some of these files were already on my machine in the system folder (probably quite a lot of em), I also know I can download mising dll's from the net, however some of the files were called 'networks' and 'protocol' (try googling on those words for a file to download and you can see that you will have problems cos you will get millions of irrelevant things returned).

Anyway I tried to connect up the computers with a crossover cable but it didn't seem to work.I also tried to connect to my cable modem via the ethernet card but that didn't work either.

So I am not sure where I am or how to proceed, any ideas? The computer I put the card in is an old one,Cryix MII 300, maybe it can't use ethernet (I am out of my depth here!!).

Is there a 'standard' instalation I can download from somewhere? I have never installed one of these cards before so I have nothing to go on really so I would appreciate any help from anyone who is familliar with these cards and their installation etc..

TIA.