Pete N Leanne said:
I just performed a fresh install of xp on an Acer Notebook 4000 (damaged
recovery partition). All seemed well until attempting to connect to the
internet. Error message says it cannot obtain TCP/IP settings. I've tried
disabling/enabling; uninstalling/reinstalling ethernet controller etc
w/devmgr to no avail. Anybody know how to overcome this annoyance?
(currently running on my desktop - vista)
I can't tell from this thread what you've attempted but I'll pass along what
I'd do if I was confronting this issue. I can't guarantee it will work but
seeing as how you're still working on this problem 24 hours after installing
XP it may be worth a shot.
First, go to Acer's web site
http://support.acer.com/drivers_download.aspx.
Follow the prompts until you arrive at the listing of drivers available for
your laptop.
Download the Lan driver.
You should end up downloading a zip file named
Lan_Broadcom_7.97.0.0_XPX86.zip.
Extract the driver files from the zip file to a handy location. There'll be
three files, b57win32.cat, b57win32.inf, and b57xp32.sys.
You've got a couple of options as to how you proceed from here. You could go
to Control Panel and run the Add Hardware wizard. Me personally, I prefer to
work through Device Manager, Start -> Run -> devmgmt.msc. Hopefully you'll
find an entry with a exclamation point next to it. Odds are it's your
network adapter. Right click on it and select Update Driver from the menu.
In the Update Hardware Wizard, pass on searching online for a driver. You
want to point the wizard to the files you downloaded. Make the appropriate
choices and you should end up being able to hit the Have Disk button and
selecting the .inf file for your Ethernet card.
If you tried the Device Manager route and there aren't any items listed with
exclamation points then you'll have to try using the Add Hardware wizard.
Good luck
Nepatsfan