the driver is
located here
Devices this driver supports:
Realtek RTL8101 Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)
Realtek RTL8168/8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)
Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family PCI Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)
Operating Systems: Win Vista
call him and perhaps he can DL it while at school (could also be a pain as mounting a USB device at schools could be restricted ... call and see what happens)
MEAN WHILE; we might try to the the WiFi configured
USING the desktop system
access the router; login
setup->Administration
Wireless Access Web (*) DISABLE
Remote Mgmt (*) DISABLE
UPnP (*) DISABLE
setup->Wireless Basic =>(*) Manual
--- I can't get screen shots for everything we need, so I'll outline what you need to do and
you need to search and peck about to find where to make the changes --
the Setup->Status will show what IS set, find'm and make these changes:
Mode: G-Only (not mixed)
SSID: change from Linksys to anything else, even a firstname+2 digits
Channel: 6 is ok
Encryption: leave none for now, but we need to change that as soon as we get a wifi connection to your SSID to work
When you save the settings, the router may disconnect. Don't panic
Manage Issue for WiFi: when a system has both wired & WiFi capability, it can easily get confused when BOTH are running at the same time.
The way to simplify life is to
enable one or the other but not both
My Toshiba has a software widget that makes this trivial, but you can alway
use the Device Mgr to flip these
right-click the MyComputer->Manage
click on Device Manager
open [+] Network Adapters
disable one, enable the other
Typically, we use the Wireless Network Wizard to make the connection.
look for the SSID you created an allow that to connect - -
you should see an icon in the system tray and hovering the mouse over it, it will
show the connection and the bandwidth speed.
Keep me posted . . .
