Ok, so I got an old IBM 1161 Laptop from my dad. It has 32 mb of ram and a 500 mhz celecron. So I was checking it to see what it has and noticed there was no ethernet port. However, there was a modem. Beside the modem was a sespicious peice of rectangular plastic. It looked like it could come ff, so I tried with a screw driver. Whata you know! it came off reaveling an ethernet port! I tried using it on my network and it didn't work. As it turns out, the computer already had drivers and a troubleshooter for the network card. Troublesshooter said that the drivers worked but the network card didn't. Maybe IBM disabled the ethernet instead of re-designing the entire mother board for this model, you know save 1$ a pc make an extra million $ in sales. Anyway, can someone please help me get the thing working, im willing to open the laptop up.
Usually when a key selling point on a laptop is disabled, there's usually a good reason for it. You may just want to add a cheap PCMCIA ethernet card and forgo the potentially dangerous hardware tweaking. -AT
check in device manager and see if it disabled if it is enable it it should work if its there post back Dave :good:
