Identifying Motherboard/Network Adapter problems

Axidium

Hi,

Hi I currently dual boot to either openSUSE or Windows 7 on my laptop. The problem is, internet works on openSUSE and it doesn't work on Windows.

So what I've been doing is downloading the network drivers for windows from suse and trying to install them on windows. However, when I try install them, I get the message that goes something like this "No Intel(R) adapter present". Something similar to that.

Then I started to realise that I may be trying to install drivers which are not compatible with my motherboard. So now identifying my motherboard is a problem?

How will I go about to solve this internet issue I have on Windows 7 Ultimate???

Thanks in advance.

bonzodog2

In Device Manager on Windows, look for network adapter or unknown device, get the vendor and product ID (4 hex chars each) and google to find make/model. Or identify BIOS (look for a string of chars on boot)

http://www.pcidatabase.com/ may help too

Also Belarc Advisor should identify laptop mobo and give MAC address of NIC

riclad

OR put in your pc model no,network driver,
ie google hp pc 150tk network driver,
download ,the file , from linux ,
THEN install it from device manager,
if its an exe file, click it, run,ok, install it
Maybe put the file on a usb drive ,when in the linux os.
post your laptop model here,
ie sony vaio 750tg

riclad

Look on control panel, hardware device manager,
if theres 2 yellow icons ,there
that means, two device drivers are needed,
MAYBE 1 network driver,
plus a motherboard device driver.
Install mobo driver first.
ALL motherboard drivers are usually needed to be present installed,
before you can install the network device driver.
linux suse might identify the wifi unit, device, I presume theres a system info app for linux,
similar to device manager.

http://www.tuxradar.com/answers/556 for linux ,

. There are various programs that will report on the status of your hardware, some generic and some specific to a distro. One of my favourites is lshw (http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter), which is generally used in a console and gives a detailed listing of everything in the machine, from motherboard and CPU to USB devices.

i think console= linux terminal

Axidium

Does this help? Here's a pic of my specs. Can someone please put some link where I can download drivers for these specs?

Axidium

Here's another pic of my device manager in Windows 7.

bonzodog2

Terrible pictures! Check out screen capures! (Alt-Prnt Scrn), or well, do I like I said in post#2

The PCI ID from DevMan sould look like this
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_10F5&SUBSYS_02331028

The 4 characters after DEV and VEN are the codes to put into the website I linked earlier

Axidium

bonzodog2 wrote: »

Terrible pictures! Check out screen capures! (Alt-Prnt Scrn), or well, do I like I said in post#2

The PCI ID from DevMan sould look like this
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_10F5&SUBSYS_02331028

The 4 characters after DEV and VEN are the codes to put into the website I linked earlier

Sorry about the pic quality I uploaded them using my nexus 7. The problem with Internet is solved, I got the drivers and it works. Now what's remaining is everything apart from network and ethernet controller.thanks for the help

GreenWolfe

I find the best software to identify hardware is ASTRA32.

It can make your system freeze sometimes though, make sure you are not doing anything else at the time.

Once you have the model number of your laptop you should be able to look it up on their support site.

riclad

Whats the laptop,model,
eg dell model dimension 670.?
how many yellow icons is there in device manager.?
google your model no drivers .
eg dell model 670gh drivers

Axidium

riclad wrote: »

Whats the laptop,model,
eg dell model dimension 670.?
how many yellow icons is there in device manager.?
google your model no drivers .
eg dell model 670gh drivers

Problem is solved. Thanks for the help to all. The thread can be closed.