I had a friend of mine complain to me about a fake anti-spyware program (spylocked) alerting him that his computer was vulernable as well as the typical "my computer is slow".
Anyway I decided to backup his data to optical media and that a reformat was in order. Reinstall went okay (though partioning took forever; didn't notice GParted was running a test before the real partitioning) but lo-and-behold after installing the usual security software I plug the cat5 cable back in the NIC and it won't recognize the connection. Tried the Networking Wizard, nope.
Its a HP m7160n media center, but HP fails to provide a driver for the ethernet controller on their website. I used an external USB ethernet adaptor (Linksys 200m), downloaded the driver from within Knoppix and Windows would not allow me to install it because it was "the wrong driver/not compatible with hardware".
Hardware is not at fault, Knoppix detects both NIC cards (without user configuration nor manually providing drivers). Thought about connecting my computer to it but that wouldn't work because of the ethernet connection.
So any ideas? I know there is a way, its just not coming to mind...Thank you
Last edited by myrevolt on Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:39 am; edited 1 time in total
Anyway I decided to backup his data to optical media and that a reformat was in order. Reinstall went okay (though partioning took forever; didn't notice GParted was running a test before the real partitioning) but lo-and-behold after installing the usual security software I plug the cat5 cable back in the NIC and it won't recognize the connection. Tried the Networking Wizard, nope.
Its a HP m7160n media center, but HP fails to provide a driver for the ethernet controller on their website. I used an external USB ethernet adaptor (Linksys 200m), downloaded the driver from within Knoppix and Windows would not allow me to install it because it was "the wrong driver/not compatible with hardware".
Hardware is not at fault, Knoppix detects both NIC cards (without user configuration nor manually providing drivers). Thought about connecting my computer to it but that wouldn't work because of the ethernet connection.
So any ideas? I know there is a way, its just not coming to mind...Thank you
Last edited by myrevolt on Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:39 am; edited 1 time in total
