national semiconductor dp83815 based pci fast ethernet adaptor

[mark2009]

hi,a friend is installing windows7 onto an amilo l6820 laptop,the intallation went fine and all is working except for the ethernet drivers. we are trying to get it to work with 7but not having any look,it has a national semiconductor dp83815 based pci fast ethernet adaptor fitted.
this worked fine with xp, we can use the internet through a netgear dongle,no problem,but would like to get the ethernet side to work, thanks

[Mouse]

Can I assume first of all that this is the Release Candidate of Windows 7?

I'm confused as to how you got W7 installed without it having a driver preinstalled for your ethernet adaptor.

Anyway can you confirm my above question?

[mark2009]

hi .thanks for the reply,we were trying the release candidate of windows 7, it installed ok not the ethernet side of things.
anyway we have had to stop going any further with the installation because the hard drive has given up,nothing to do with the installation, just one of those thing on a sunday afternoon that happens.
thankyou once again for taking the time to help. thanks