Network adapter driver

[leachbe]

Hello,
I had the hard drive in my Dell Inspirion 570 die and I had a 1 T hard drive and installed it. I installed Wndows 7 on it and when I tried to grt on line, I get a message that says I need to install a network adapter driver. I don't know where to find one! Any ideas?

 

[visa]

Do you mean a Dell Inspiron 1570? It looks like they have drivers for Vista 32 and 64 bit and Windows 7 64 bit:

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/Product/inspiron-1570

If that doesn't work, it's possible to download the drivers from the network adapter manufacturer.

 

[leachbe]

when I put my service tag number in, it says it's a 570. I didn't find the driver there. I don't have the manufacturers name to look for it

 

[visa]

We can find this if you can go to device manager and get the ven and dev numbers for the network adapter. Here's a step-by-step on how to do that:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5936388_unknown-device-drivers.html

I imagine the network adapter is showing as an unknown device. If you can get the ven and dev numbers and post them, we can find the correct drivers.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://downloads-us.dell.com/network/R243167.exe < ethernet

http://downloads-us.dell.com/network/R290807.exe < wireless mini card

 

[leachbe]

We can find this if you can go to device manager and get the ven and dev numbers for the network adapter. Here's a step-by-step on how to do that:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5936388_unknown-device-drivers.html

I imagine the network adapter is showing as an unknown device. If you can get the ven and dev numbers and post them, we can find the correct drivers.

visa,

it looks like the ven is Broadcom and the dev is NetLink Gigabit Ethernet

 

[leachbe]

visa,

it looks like the ven is Broadcom and the dev is NetLink Gigabit Ethernet

 

[leachbe]

This is fixed. thanks

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Awesome.Glad to hear!