On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:44:34 +1300
David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.

Way OT - what has this to do with linux???? trying to find a w2k driver
for a laptop card?????

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Dave
> 
> http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
> 
> 

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