A couple days ago I started a thread about installing Win7 on a Win8 machine. Different problem now.
I got 7 installed and working, however I can’t connect to the internet. The computer doesn’t recognize any network cards and says it’s missing the Ethernet Controller driver. The service is fine as I’m connected with the laptop.
The sysem is a Gateway SX211G-UW318. I went to the GW site and downloaded a driver to a flash drive, but installing it involves connected to their site at one point. I called GW and they want to charge for support.
So what I need help with is finding the driver I can upload from the flash drive to get it working. Never experienced this kind of problem before.
It does matter if its 32 bit or 64bit, however this driver contains both versions 32 & 64bit)
A network card driver file does normally not require a connection to the net to install the driver, except for the part of getting a driver.
Finding out what card you got in can be a problem if it’s an integrated one, like what you seem to have, since it’s not a card itself - it’s only a chip on the mainboard.
However, try to extract the Lan_Realtek_7.045.0516.2011_W7x64_A.zip file onto the Flash drive .
When updating/installing the driver select this folder for the driver location: x:\Lan_Realtek_7.045.0516.2011_W7x64_A\Lan_Realtek_7.045.0516.2011_W7x64\WIN7\64 (X or whatever drive letter your flash drive on your PC has)