I know I’ve posted a few times asking for help lately but I’m just really stumped with some of this stuff. I can’t get Ethernet working in my Inspiron 2500. It has the port for it but windows 98 both doesn’t detect any missing devices and any of the 10/100 drivers I installed from the Dell page for this laptop don’t seem to work. Does anyone have any experience with this?
MoG91 wrote on 2021-03-07, 04:12:I know I’ve posted a few times asking for help lately but I’m just really stumped with some of this stuff. I can’t get Ethernet working in my Inspiron 2500. It has the port for it but windows 98 both doesn’t detect any missing devices and any of the 10/100 drivers I installed from the Dell page for this laptop don’t seem to work. Does anyone have any experience with this?
This is likely because there is no actual Ethernet card installed . Apparently, the port is always physically there, but the mini PCI card required to make it work was an optional extra . Your Inspiron 2500 likely does not have it installed .
See https://www.dell.com/community/Networking-Int … ll/td-p/3230747
darry wrote on 2021-03-07, 04:33:MoG91 wrote on 2021-03-07, 04:12:I know I’ve posted a few times asking for help lately but I’m just really stumped with some of this stuff. I can’t get Ethernet working in my Inspiron 2500. It has the port for it but windows 98 both doesn’t detect any missing devices and any of the 10/100 drivers I installed from the Dell page for this laptop don’t seem to work. Does anyone have any experience with this?
This is likely because there is no actual Ethernet card installed . Apparently, the port is always physically there, but the mini PCI card required to make it work was an optional extra . Your Inspiron 2500 likely does not have it installed .
See https://www.dell.com/community/Networking-Int … ll/td-p/3230747
Oh! That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for that