Problem with connecting to the net

[brayden]

here is the situation, i have a compaq presario SR5260 Desktop PC sitting here, originally it had vista and all that junk on it so it got reformatted and ubuntu put on it, then i got bored one day and attached a 40GB hard drive from a old, dead machine to it. Well that machine had Intel and ATI hardware and this PC it's in now has AMD and Nvidia, once i worked my way past all the BSoD (thank the lord for safe mode :P ) i installed the Nvidia drivers and sound devices etc.

But there was a big problem. The machine of course doesnt' have the same network card, from memory it was a AMD PCnet ethernet adapter, so i googled for some downloads for it and went to nvidia page and installed or the nForce GPU drivers and all with the ethernet driver and some other things, and still i couldn't get my network to work properly. So i googled around some more only to find downloads that redirect to the AMD page where i'm shocked and annoyed to find almost no info what so ever.

Everything works fine except i can't get network connectivity. and i badly need to get a network connection as windows xp is yelling at me for changing PCs and wants to deactivate itself after 3 days, unless activated which i can't do.

Anyway I would really love it if any of you know where i can get the driver. I noticed when i took the ethernet cable out it didn't show that the network cable had been unplugged, the net works fine on ubuntu however.

in addition i noticed when playing around with network options that the "Internet Protocal (TCP/IP)" that you can see on the connection properties hadn't been installed, i went to install it and it asked me for a .ini file so it could take the info from it and get the software.

The only connection i can see in Network Connections is "1394 Connection" which is under LAN or High-Speed Internet.

The system is a Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 with updates from late January '09 (when the PC it originally came from died) The machine also has Kaspersky Internet Security installed and the computer connects through a switch to my 2wire 2071-A cable router.

I just hope one of you can help solve my problem, this is so damn frustrating i'm going to explode, i've spent nearly a day on this problem and have delved through my system and drivers (weird that i found some AVG stuff in there however) and still no success. I'll keep trying but i'm in dire need for help.

Thanks for reading my excessively long post.

[heart reaper]

Well, can you give a shortened version of the above post? About the driver name.

[detailer]

Hey Bayden-Wow-read that three times to follow you.Anyway,I'll start with this-I did an inplace/repair install of XP a while back(attempting to repair a boot.ini file)Long story short-MS has a way of locking some much needed system files that keep you from accessing the net.I had everything in place-drivers, network card etc.Called MS and asked what's up.They wanted money to "download" the files that were needed to establish a connection.Strange I thought-how do you send me a file with no IC? Couldn't get anywhere without my credit card.No explanation of how this is possible without $$.F-you I thought to myself,and pretty much told them so.Pay for something I've already bought(OEM copy of XP)I Googled for ever and found no way around this,and that it happens all the time.There's just no specific info on this MS rip-off.We both know the files are there somewhere-they have to be!! It's a matter of finding which ones,and moving them to the right place.Again-Googled for hours on this. So I just went ahead with a clean install which worked perfectly.I suspect even though your situation appears much different than mine,I believe you've arrived at the same place I did.I think even with the driver,no MS operating system is going to see the net.I hope I'm wrong.

[brayden]

It did have net connection beforehand, dialup and broadband, as i mentioned this came out of a old computer that I had net connection on. So it should be able to go on the net again.

I just need some working drivers. Oh god if only windows was more like ubuntu and can setup my connection without god forsaken drivers!

[Rush]

These are all the LAN drivers for XP. There may exist a device that has a driver not included in this pack but I have never found it.
http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/DriverPack.php?pag=l

[Mark]

Try this:

http://www.soft32.com/download_177918.html

[brayden]

Mark I've found tonnes of soft32 download links and they all redirect to a useless AMD page. Rush thanks but that didn't work when I installed it. I finally figured out how when i bothered right clicking on it! *punches himself in the face*. but i noticed something. In the drivers manager thing it doesn't seem to have a proper bus controller in it so that might not be helpful. when i disable the bus driver the 1349 connection vanishes from network adapters.