[Jay H 237]

Billfred, when you go into the control panel and look at the hardware profile does it at least show the network card and possibly a manufacturer? I imagine since you're only missing the driver that it will show up with a yellow exclamation point and not a red X next to it.

I just did an internet search and I found that the Gateway 3400 was offered with 4 different mobos from GVC, Intel, Jabil, and MSI. The latter 2 apperently had capacitor problems and the units returned to and repaired by Gateway wound up with the GVC and Intel mobos. Not knowing which is in your computer puts a new twist in locating a driver. If you can at least come up with a manufacturer for the mobo and/or the LAN then it may make things easier.

Of course the simplest thing would be to just find a new, or even used, network card to put in it if there's an available PCI slot. To be honest I think that's what you're going to have to do to network this computer even though you're trying to avoid it.