I recently got AOL silver broadband. Before this i used Freeserve dial-up internet. I followed all the instructions on the disk, and then it came to checking that everything was correct, and the installation software could not find my aol router. I think there is a problem with my ethernet port on my computer, which is quite old. I know there is no problem with my router as i have tested it on my firends laptop computer and he found no problem with it. I looked on the help files on the AOL disk and it said to look in the system properties in the control panel. My ethernet port was not listed under the network adapters, instead it was under Other Devices, with a ? next to it. I looked on it's p[roperties and it said that the drivers were not installed properly. I don;t know where to get the drivers from as the computer i use was given to me from a friend. I am now using my dial up internet. Please help! Thanks Richard

Open your computer and take a look at the ethernet card, find out who makes it, and what model it is, then search on Google for drivers for that particular card.

i can't actually get to my ethernet card - my computer is boxed into the corner and i can't get to it - what should i do now? Cheers Richard

is it built into the mainboard? if so go into the bios and enable it. google system utilities like sandra that will generate a hardware report for you. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

Kind of the lamest excuse ever heard for not looking inside - - at some point, you will have to As mentioned, plenty of hardware analysers, readily available - Everest is good for finding 'unknowns' I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.

Best advice; get rid of anything AOL. Life is more painless for those who are brainless.