Hi all, A friend needs to get his mp3 collection written onto CD to free up some drive space. I figured I could just hook his laptop onto the network here and copy the files off to burn them on one of my machines.
When I plugged it into my switch nothing happened. The lights didn't even come on. It seems that Win2k can't see the laptop's built-in NIC. Installing a driver manually was a bit pointless as nowhere could I find out which chipset it is. BTW there was no BIOS setting to enable/disable it. The machine in question is a Toshiba Satellite S1710. He bought it secondhand in the UK (he just got back on Saturday). Downloading the manual from the Toshiba UK website was a waste of time... according to that, this model doesn't even have a socket there. I suspect the manual is for a slightly different variant. Google isn't turning up much. I didn't get time to try a Linux boot disk which may be able to help... but in the meantime, does anyone here know off the top of their head what the chipset is likely to be? If I get desperate I'll just borrow a PCMCIA network card from work. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
