Prashant Pandya wrote: > I bought a lenovo system with windows vista on it. However, the software > that I use at work is not Vista Compatible so I'm having to downgrade it to > Windows XP. After doing the install, im having problems finding the right xp > internet driver. So everything else works except im not able to access the > network from work which makes getting the laptop pointless. Anyone else know > where i can find the right driver? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > This is OpenSolaris, not Windows, but I'll bet money it's an Intel Gigabit. My Thinkpad T30 under XP needed Intel Pro 100 drivers, even though there's some support for Intel cards out of the box. I truely doubt even with the acquisition, that Lenovo went with another vendor's ethernet, every x86 IBM machine since 2000 has used Intel network.
Perhaps you could delve into device manager properties and under details find the device ID for the card, google that, I've had decent luck finding the answer through mailinglists and forum posts just by searching for the device ID. Vendors all submit their hardware ID's to databases, of course mainly behind doors at Microsoft though. Try running OpenSolaris or Linux on it, use prtconf -pv (On Solaris) and /usr/X11/bin/scanpci (On Solaris), or lspci (On Linux) to get hardware ID's and see if either has network support, use lsmod (Linux) or modinfo (Solaris) to see loaded kernel modules. James
