Hello everyone,

I recently bought a new pc from ebay. It works ok, a lot faster than my other pc. The thing is, to use the ethernet port to connect to my broadband router, i have to install drivers. This is fine until i drop into linux as the drivers obviously won't work and neither will the ethernet port.

My other pc's ethernet port just works, no drivers, nothing, so when i use linux it works fine.

I am all too familiar with winmodems. Is this the same thing? After opening the case, the part itself looks exactly the same so i assume there is no extra hardware in the older one that works better. I'm thinking maybe it's the motherboard but this is just a guess.

Either way, is there anyway i can make this thing work without the need for the drivers? Apart from buying a new ethernet card or motherboard of course.

Thanks