Test for Ethernet card on G40?

[Kerrith]

Friend's ThinkPad G40:

I was able to surf by plugging my DSL Ethernet cable into the ThinkPad G40's Ethernet port.

Then I added 512 RAM to the original 128, and, reformatted the HDD, and, did a clean install of XP Home w/SP2. The notebook works much faster than before. *

Now my Verizon DSL install CD says that it can't find the Ethernet [NIC] card/controller.

There are yellow question marks in Device Manager > Other devices > alongside Ethernet Controller, MultiMedia Audio Controller, and PCI Modem.

Does this mean the Ethernet card broke or what?

Thanks,

Kerry

Since posting the above I tried connecting via dial-up but discovered that the modem is "unavailable" "device missing" also. I assumed that if the machine has a line-in port that it had a modem card. I'm reluctant to open the back to see if the modem and Ethernet cards are there. Are there schematics or instuctions that tell how to check?

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I'm confused as to what happen to the Ethernet NIC card between the time I surfed successfully and then made tha above changes. What could I have done to cause the Ethernet card to disappear.

[A.C.]

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-50513

No you didn't blow up your Ethernet card.

Download drivers for your Ethernet controller, the audio subsystem and the PCI modem from the link above.

>> I'm confused as to what happened...

Windows XP does not come with the drivers you need.

You *may* want to install the video driver from the IBM site as well...

Good luck!

[Kerrith]

Thanks A.C.

I sure appreciate it.

Kerry