PCI to Cardbus... No Driver Available?

I may be missing something fairly obvious, but heres the situation...

Pavillion n5150, came factory installed with ME.
I did an install of TinyXP on it, which installed easily and runs very nicely. The only problem has been that a few drivers were not installed, and the HP site does not seem to have them. The most important is the PCI to Cardbus bridge driver, because the notebook doesnt have built in ethernet, so a pci card is needed. I believe that if that was working I could manage the rest.

But HP has very limited drivers for the 5150, and none of them are that particular one.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate it.

btw, Ive googled for the drivers and tried various ones to no avail.

 

I googled for the picture of that computer and it looks like the HP XE3 laptops I used to sell many years back. At the HP driver page ( http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...sId=31650&submit.y=0&submit.x=0&lang=en&cc=us) some of the drivers are listed for Pavilion n5xxx seriest too. Unfortunately there is no chipset drivers or anything else actually useful.

What makes me think, if you installed a stripped down version of XP, some of the stripped files must have been pcmcia/cardbus related driver files that desktop computer users would never need. That would also explain why you cannot find drivers in the internet: there is no need to publish them anywhere as they should be built in windows itself.

 

You make a good point. Maybe I'll try a full XP install and then just strip it down. I tried using an XP disk and looking for the drivers, but it didnt go well...