Need a mini pci network card!

[matchmaker]

I've just acquired (for zilch) an old Dell laptop. It works fine but doesn't have a network card installed, only a modem in the mini pci slot. But can I track down a mini pci modem/LAN card? No - every one I can find are wireless cards and I don't need one of them!

Does anyone have one they don't need, or point me in the direction of one?

[FourWheelDrift]

What about a USB fast eternet adapter that plugs into a spare USB port and you plug the network cable into that?

http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-FA120-100-USB-Adapte...

Not necessarily that one of from there though.

[mcflurry]

cex had some on the shelf the other day for under £10

[Simon Says]

Maybe of use http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&amp...

[Morningside]

Hold on. I have one here somewhere.....I will have a dig about in the morning.

[matchmaker]

Simon Says said:

Maybe of use http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&amp...

I'd rather not use an expansion card. The laptop has an RJ45 socket, but it's not connected to anything. The cable is in place, but the installed card is modem only.

[matchmaker]

Morningside said:

Hold on. I have one here somewhere.....I will have a dig about in the morning.

Thanks.

[annodomini2]

99% of Dell laptops made after 2000 have an integrated Ethernet. Should be part of the motherboard chipset.

The mini-pci is usually just to add wireless/modems

Which model, as some mini-pci cards are not always the same.

If its broken or just not available, 1st check the drivers are installed, secondly the other option will probably be PCMCIA, which should be easier to acquire.

[Morningside]

Earlier models (mainly corporate - cost I suppose) did not have a network card built in even though they had the Ethernet connector and some did not even have that and had just a hole or a blanked plate.

[Simon Says]

Just in case in is pre-installed by Dell please make sure its enabled in BIOS some are not as in my refurbished IBM T series which came switched off look for LAN enabled/disabled setting must be worth a look.

[Morningside]

Sorry, it is a 3com modem. CN-06F553 but I can ask about for you.