Find driver for network card?

[presto]

Fixing up an old computer and I need to find the driver for the network card. Here is a picture of the card on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com.my/viItem?ItemId=8735598260#photo

I found that in a round about way but I know it is the right card because it looks exactly like it and I had allready decided it was a CNET product from the numbers on the card.

I went to driversguide.com and put in CNET and Ethernet Card and it came up with 9 drivers but I have no idea how to tell if any of them are the right one.

Any ideas?

[TooLFooL]

won't windows find it's own driver?

[offline]

but I know it is the right card because it looks exactly like it and I had allready decided it was a CNET product from the numbers on the card.

Yeah but in most cases you will need the chip serial number. Given the cost of a decent 3com/intel card I'd just get a new one. Last time I had similar trouble it took hours to find the right driver and even then the card was crappy. I think I used drivershq

[presto]

There must have been a meeting sometime where someone suggested they print the name of a computer part ON the part. I wonder what happened. Did they stare at him blankly? Did run around and scream in confusion? Did they shoot him on the spot?

I'll probably go buy a new one but it's shame to have a perfectly good card sitting here and can't use it.

[offline]

If you care to spend the time, you can always check through the feedback for more I.D. info and try and match another chip or revision number to your card. Using windows update via the net is a long shot but miracles can happen. Other than that, as you obviously realize, it is a tedious matter of trial and error and I bet any XP drivers won't be digitally signed either.

[TooLFooL]

just plug it in and turn it on. windows will install a driver.

[presto]

just plug it in and turn it on. windows will install a driver

The card was in the whole time when I blanked the hard drive and then re-installed windows 98. Windows did not find a driver. I guess not all ethernet cards are known by windows 98.

[TooLFooL]

damn, thats kinda surprising. do you have another that will work? perhaps you could get online with it, plug in the second card and windows should search & download a driver from windows update. then remove the other one? kinda crude but it might work!

[thevoelk]

If it's installed in a Windows 98 machine, go to the Device Manager and go to the Properties of the device listing; it may be under Network Adapter or Other Devices, it depends if Windows can identify it as a NIC. By the way, I don't have a 98 machine, but I'm pretty sure this exists in 98.

Go to the details tab, and drop the arrow down to Hardware Ids. You should see something like PCV\VEN_XXXX_&DEVXXX. The XXXX are going to be letters and numbers. If you google that string, you should be able to find the correct or a compatible driver.

[isogonic]

this any help:

http://www.cnet.com.tw/download/

[redwudz]

In the US with just about any type of computer card, there should be a FCC ID number on it. You can go to the FCC site or other similar sites to trace down the manufacturer of the card and often find the drivers and the model of the card through this.

http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/

[presto]

This computer is one of several so I checked one of the others and found the correct name for the Ethernet Adapter. It was a CNET 10/100 PRO 200. I then downloaded the correct driver from driversguide.com and had no trouble.

[TooLFooL]

cool deal! sorry i was no help!