I lost my network card thing when i uninstalled something but it wasnt my network

i disabled my broadband network so that i could uninstall my firewall and now my whole net work connection is gone and that computer icon thats in your network folder is gone for me and i cant reset it up. i have broadband so it should always be on and already set up but its not..do i have to reformat? the reason i disabled it was so that i could uninstall norton 360 and i didn't want to be connected to the net so i used the norton program and when i was done i went back to enable my network but that icon that lets you reenable it is gone. please help, thanks for any help anyone gives me. btw I'm on a different computer right now.

Start > Control Panel > Network Connections

Is there anything in there?

I assume you're using XP?


BTW, that was intensly hard to understand what you wrote

you approach was correct; disconnect the internet and then uninstall Norton.
(see this for complete removal of Norton (http://www.techspot.com/downloads/1437-norton-removal-tool-symnrt.html))

Once Norton is gone, be sure to activate your default windows FW.

Now you should be able to connect the system directly to the modem
modem---your.system
and if DHCP is active on your NIC settings, you should connect.