XP install doesn't see ethernet card

[kj21]

Hi. I just reinstalled XP on my system. Now I can't connect to the internet. I use a cable modem through Road Runner. It's supossed to connect immediatly with no additional setup. DHCP. The only thing that shows up in my Network Connections window is "1394 Connection". I thought that was Firewire. I do have a Firewire PCI card installed. My device manager has a "?" on the ethernet controller. I move the card to a different PCI slot, and it recognized it as new hardware, but couldn't install a driver. The card is an Asound LAN 8139. I DL'ed a driver for it on my old POS laptop, but I can't seem to get floppies from the laptop (Win98se, FAT32) to be recognized on my PC (WinXP, NTFS) to copy the file over.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advanced.

[Rick]

Format a floppy in the desktop system.
Then copy the drivers to the Hard drive of the laptop.
Then use the new floppy from the desktop and copy them again to the floppy

The desktop should be able to read the files from it's own floppy

Windows doesn't provive support for all the NIC's out there.
I have to install the drivers for all my 3com nic's in this way.

If you have a cd burner in the laptop that would be even better
For future use I'd make a cd/dvd backup of all the required drivers for each system

[kj21]

Thanks for the quick reply Rick. For some reason I can't format floppies on the desktop system. The only option it gives me is FAT, then it says couldn't complete the format. No reason. Oh well, I'll download the files at work tomorrow and burn them to CD.

Thanks for your time.

[pop pop]

Floppies can only be formatted in FAT. NTFS etc, is out of the question. Naturally, you tried a new clean floppy?

[kj21]

ahh, didn't know that about floppies Pop Pop. No these floppy disks are several years old. I haven't used a floppy in years. I'll grab some new ones from work and try that as a backup plan.

thanks