no dv2120us nic drivers!

Hello,
tis my first post and i'm glad i found this place, seems like a knowledgable bunch.
My issue: i have a DV2120us, and i have just freshly installed Vista and for some reason HP has every driver for the laptop except the integrated lan driver. they only have the wireless drivers under the network section, and there is no wireless connection i can access. i have checked the post at the top of this forum about hp vista drivers. and the only lan driver posted there was for a dv8000, i tried installing it anyway and it didn't work. can anyone give me a clue as to where the driver may be for the integrated lan? i have already installed most of the others including the chipset.

Thanks

 

The chipset drivers should include the ethernet drivers as well...
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3245591&os=2093&lang=en

Also Vista should have the drivers for the nic built in or it should also be available in Windows Update.

 

Thanks for that! And yeah i thought the chipset driver would have included the nic as well, but it didnt, i will try again.

And i have no connectivity at all right now so drivers via windows update are out of the question.

 

Do you see the NIC in device manager?? Do you see any unknown devices? My V3000z has similar specifications to your machine & from what I can remember the NIC & wireless worked out of the box. There were a few updates related to the chipset which might have enabled the NIC.

 

yeah, you would think that wouldnt you but sadly no.
now there are even more complications, im probably just going ot make a full post about it.
I installed vista and all the drivers, and then i realized i should have updated my bios first, so i decided to make the stupidest move of my proffesional pc enthusiast history and install the updated bios after i installed all my vista drivers, with a bios from august of 06, naturally this was a disaster. i kept getting blue screens every other reboot, so finally i just totally formatted my drive and reinstalled fresh, made sure the correct bios was on there, THEN installed my drivers, BUT even after the chipset driver install, my laptop has no idea it has a network card. it literally is no-where. even after connecting wirelessly to windows update at the library, it still couldt find it. i looked in the bios and there is no option to disable/enable the NIC. so for now im just up on my roommates wireless router, but that wont work for long. im going to flash to the older bios, then flash back to the new one, then totally reformat again and pray to god the chipset driver works. i will cry if i have to go back to XP. so if anyone has any suggestions that'd make my night.