Jason
Thu May 01 18:38:43 PDT 2008
Why don't you go to IBM/Lenovo's site to get it?
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-47TUYM#Networking
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"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message news:fvdpr0$bl7$1@aioe.org...
> Big Al wrote:
>> Don wrote:
>>> I installed Windows 2000 (not recovery disk version) on an IBM Thinkpad
>>> A21m. The Thinkpad has a 3COM 3C556 Hurricane mini PCI ethernet/modem
>>> card. Windows can't find a driver for it. I looked on the 3COM web
>>> site, but I can't find a "3COM 3C556 Hurricane" specific driver. Does
>>> anyone know what driver I should download and use? Thanks.
>> Use Google. Just put in 3c556. skip the 3com part. I found a lot of
>> links and some you have to follow a few links on each page to get to some
>> good info. People say its compatible with other drivers. But this
>> kinda stuck out on about the 2nd or 3rd page of Google.
>>
http://www.charydent.com/3c556.html
>>
>> I can't validate the link, so do with it what you want.
>
> First search, based on 3C556, got me a part number (3CN3AC1556B).
> For some reason, I guess they thought we'd need DOS drivers.
>
>
http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/searchbyfile.jsp?fileid=all&os=all&sort=prodnum&fname=3c556&prodcat=all&path=download
>
> Eventually, I found this, based on that part number.
> Maybe the 3cmpci.exe file, at 3,704,832 bytes, will do it.
>
>
http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3cn3ac1556.htm
>
> And you can apparently, still buy the mini PCI card :-)
> So for $75, you could get a card and drivers that way.
>
> Paul