Margot wrote:
Tony.
Sweet of you to offer, Tony - unfortunately, I'm in Kent!
I'm going to try the Adult Education centre courses - with any luck,
I'll be able to learn how to install the ethernet card myself, perhaps
with a little help by "remote control" from the kind people on this list
;-)
Margot
Hi folk
Can I toss in another option from the antipodes, may cost a few pounds
more, but may end up quicker and less worrying to Margot. That is to use
a USB to Ethernet LAN adaptor.
I had the problem of a 5-year old laptop running MK 10, which would not
cope with a cardbus(32-bit) PMCIA Ethernet card after my old 16-bit card
failed. It has one USB port which now carries the USB to Ethernet LAN
adaptor. This picked up the settings I had tried for the Cardbus card,
and is talking happily to my ADSL router/modem and my desktop machine.
In OZ, the USB card is about twice the price of a PCI Ethernet card,
but will of course just plug into a USB port.
Just another possibility which has certainly worked very simply for me
in a somewhat similar situation.
Russell
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