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
That's an interesting suggestion. I've never heard of these adaptors before - can you tell me the make/model of the one you're using? Of course there's no guarantee that the same one would be available in the UK, but at least I could go to a shop and say "I want one...like this"!
And you had no trouble with the USB side of it? I had to abandon a USB printer that insisted on being reinstalled & reconfigured every time I switched it on...but my USB scanner works fine!
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