If there's Ethernet, you can connect to the internet... if you can't find out what network card it is, you're gonna have to open it up and look. Finding drivers shouldn't be too hard after you ID it.

Ok I had sometime to work on this over the weekend, but unfortunately no matter what I do, I can't get into the internet.
The Ethernet port flashes both lights as if it is working properly when the cable is plugged in, but my router can't recognize it.

The Ethernet card model is a PNP 16-BIT ISA SMC EtherEZ8416T. If I remove it from the device manager and after a restart, I get the: "found a new device" and automatically finds the driver for it, which seems to be the SMC
EtherEZ 8416 one.

I found some info about the PNP capabilities and tried this but still no go: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/137475

Also I don't know if I'm configuring it correctly when going into "Network devices". It does shows there just fine, but nothing 🙁 .

What am I doing wrong? Please help me get this Dinosaur into to net.

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Ok I had sometime to work on this over the weekend, but unfortunately no matter what I do, I can't get into the internet. The Et […]
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Ok I had sometime to work on this over the weekend, but unfortunately no matter what I do, I can't get into the internet.
The Ethernet port flashes both lights as if it is working properly when the cable is plugged in, but my router can't recognize it.

The Ethernet card model is a PNP 16-BIT ISA SMC EtherEZ8416T. If I remove it from the device manager and after a restart, I get the: "found a new device" and automatically finds the driver for it, which seems to be the SMC
EtherEZ 8416 one.

I found some info about the PNP capabilities and tried this but still no go: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/137475

Also I don't know if I'm configuring it correctly when going into "Network devices". It does shows there just fine, but nothing 🙁 .

What am I doing wrong? Please help me get this Dinosaur into to net.

Did you try rebooting the router and the computer? Sometimes when I change devices on my network, I have to shut everything down and reboot before the MAC address of the new device gets picked up and can be seen by other networked devices.

First off, make sure you have tcp/ip installed for that adapter. Without that, you're going nowhere.

Try this: Start -> Run -> winipcfg
Do a "release all" and then a "renew all" for the relevant adapter.

Also, if your router has MAC address filtering enabled, be sure to include the adapter's MAC address in the router's table.

If the above fails, as crazy as this sounds, try discharging your router. Yep, disconnect power for about 20 minutes, then power it back on. I've seen weirder stuff help...

Thanks for the suggestions. I finally got it working by getting into the bios and disabling the whole PNP settings 😀 .

KT7AGuy wrote:

Yep, disconnect power for about 20 minutes, then power it back on. I've seen weirder stuff help...

I don't wait as long as 20 minutes, usually 30 seconds to 1 minute is sufficient for my router to find any new devices or one's that it has somehow lost track of.