Problem with my dongle

[fmctm1sw]

I picked up a copy of ReelDVD off ebay and got it yesterday. I attached this dongle to my parallel port (port enabled), and soon wound up with a corrupted boot.ini file and some nasty comment about NTOSKRNL (or something to that effect). It seems my computer did not take well to having a dongle stuck in its parallel port (come to think of it, neither would I but that isn't the point). Has anyone else experienced dongle issues?

[marco_the_boy]

Have you changed your Windows Boot logo?
(The logo is in file NTOSKRNL.EXE)
Perhaps it objects to having a non-standard NTOSKRNL file.

[BJ_M]

dont use the drivers on the cd , use the latest drivers for it off the main web site (the dongle drivers)

[Krispy Kritter]

This isn't the place for discussing dongles!



: ) jj

[fmctm1sw]

Thanks guys. I ended up reloading my O/S. It needed it anyway. Most of my data was on the other drives anyway. Seems to be OK now, I'll check out new drivers too. Yeah, who named that thing a "dongle?"

[drjtech]

Yeah, who named that thing a "dongle?"

Since you asked:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle

The word dongle has been used as a placeholder name (akin to doodad or whatchamacallit) since the 1970s. Its origin is unknown. The American Heritage Dictionary, 4th edition, says it is "probably [an] arbitrary coinage." Claims that it was derived from the name "Don Gall" are an urban myth popularized by a 1992 advertisement for Rainbow Technologies, a dongle vendor.

Dongle as the name of a device was used well before 1980 within the telecoms industry to refer to BNC cable joiners of either sex (such as the RG58 cable used on 10 meg Ethernet).

-drj