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have trouble with connecting my laptop to LAN,pls help.

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mirrorlake

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Here is the thing. My HP N5125 laptop crashed so often with Windows ME recently so I was trying to set up Windows 2000 professional on it. I got a linksys 10/100 network card. After the installation of Windows 2000, PCI modem, soundcard and video card can not work due to missing of driver files. I set up the network card pretty well and everything is fine in device manager. I thought it would be pretty easy to download the drvier files for the other device. But I can not connect to LAN at school's library. I asked for the technical help there but they couldn't fix it neither. The following thing is for sure:

1. Network card is fine under device manager. There are 3 lights on the dongle, Act, Link, 10/100. The first two are on if I connect the cable.

2. Cable is fine.

3. Network card get itself a generic IP address.

4. It seems that I can send out some data package but cann't receive any.

5. Every other setting is the default setting.

Can anyone give me a clue? Thanks a lot.
 
Did you choose the specific driver yourself, or let windows choose it from a specified location? I've seen W2K pick win98 drivers somtimes when left to its own choice. Are there any reqired MOBO drivers for your notebook?
 
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