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Originally Posted by 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.
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The control panel tells me zip. I think I might have an old NIC back at home, which I'll go hunt down later this week. (It's not like I'd rather die than crack the case, but it's not like I jump for joy, either.)
On a positive note, the Dell is now online and crunching. W00t!