Re: Eternet driver for Gateway 450RGH Laptop

On Jul 23, 12:57 am, "BigJim" <woody10...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
look under network downloads about halfway down the page.
Only you know what kind of network card is installed in your machine.
If you don't then you will have to try all of them one at a time.
These are the drivers for your machine and looks like they put several
different
cards in that machine. There is no vista support.

http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?ref=step&st=bro...

I have ordered the trendnet USB-to-RJ45 adapter from newegg, but, it
is still unnerving that I cannot find the drivers for the ethernet
controller for this laptop. It also says that the network controller
is not installed. I tried each of the entries in the list you
referenced (I had already tried each of these earlier), and, after
each one, it still gives me that "new hardware found" for both the
ethernet controller and the network controller, but, it cannot find
the drivers and enters them as "other" with the big yellow exclamation
point.

I have no way of determining what physical ethernet controller, nor
what physical network controller, is on the inside - there is no
indication anywhere to tell me that. I used the chip_detector from
INTEL and it says that I have the 855PM chipset, and, I installed
their latest driver for that chipset, but, still no drivers for the
ehternet/network controllers.

Under system/hardware/device manager/network is only gives me the
1394 controller, which is properly installed.

I am wondering whether or not Gateway ever provided drivers for the
ethernet/network controllers for this model, even when they were new.
One would think that Gateway wouldn't throw them away, if they ever
had provided them in the first place. All my emails and phone calls
to them yield the same response - that I should go back and repeat
everything I have already done (twice, now). Nobody over there can
come out and make the absolute claim that they are SURE that such
drivers ever existed at all.

Again, if anyone has this model of laptop and can actually see that
the ethernet/network controllers are truly installed (under NETWORK,
not "other"), please check and see what driver you have and, if you
know, where did you get it.

I am hopeful that the USB-RJ45 adaptor will do the trick - it is a
work-around but speaks very poorly of Gateway to not have drivers for
hardware they put in their machines. They did put SOME KIND of
ethernet/network controller in there, bcause XP PRO keeps finding them
on bootup and keeps asking me to tell it where the drivers are - blast!
.

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