Network card and old computer

[GaryGnu]

I've got a really old computer that I have around for various miscellaneous stuff. Its a 266MHz. It still works. I have upgraded memory on it and Windows 2000 loaded on it. I have a Linksys LNE100TX network card. The computer just acts like it isn't there. It will not recognize it no matter what I do. I've tried a few different slots. The hardware wizard never comes up, and I've tried manually installing with the drivers I downloaded.

Assuming this network card is "too new" for this computer, where do I find an old one that will work with old computers? I've checked eBay, but it looks like new stuff on there. I can't tell if anything is going to work with an old computer.

Thanks for any help.

 

[jlazzaro]

how sure are you that the card itself is good? try plugging it into another known working pc.

 

[themisfit610]

Could be a software problem. I had an old Celeron box that wasn't seeing a NIC at all, no matter what I did. It had XP, and should have worked out of the box.

I had to reinstall, and then everything worked perfectly fine. Don't ask me why, it was probably just a goofed up driver package, or maybe PnP was b0rked. Who knows, who cares. Reinstall FTW

~MiSfit

 

[GaryGnu]

Sorry, forgot the mention, the card was working in a different, newer PC. I should also mention that at one time, I had a different wired card in there, and it worked, and for a few years, I had a wireless card, and it worked ok.

 

[nweaver]

ebay a 3com 3c905 or Intel 10/100, both are going to be sure fire great cards.

 

[GaryGnu]

I found a different card laying around, a Macronix. I know that this card did NOT work in another old computer I was messing with last year. So I didn't think there was much chance it would work with this computer, but it works.

Thanks for your assistance.

Realizing I have lots of computer parts lying around for someone who really isn't that much of a geek.

 

[MikeShunt]

whatever card you need you could get one off ebay for peanuts. theres loads