Here's the thing, I have an IBM Thinkpad R50e at work. I accidently insirted the RJ45 cable in a phone socket. There was a weird "plastic melting" smell and smoke started coming out of the laptop. I disconnected it and restarted it. Now the laptop is working fine but I cannot access the internet or the LAN. I guess the internal network card is "toast". Is it fixable? if not, what can I buy to solve the problem?
2007-01-13 17:46:44 · 8 answers · asked by Wait&Hope 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
If you are a borardband user you can gat a network card to go into the expantion slot on the side of the laptop. This allowes you to connect to a network and use broardband. Or you could use the USB plug on the broardband modem.
If you are a dial up user you can get a USB modem that allows you to connect to a dial up internet connection.
Alternately you could change over wireless internet you get a card to go into the expansion slot and connect wit a wireless service provider and you can connect to the internet wherever there is a mobile phone network available, but doing this you can not add a network card as the wireless modem takes up all of the space.
If your laptop has an inbuilt wireless card and you use broardband just get a wireless router and plug the borarbnand into that and use it over a wireless network in your house.
2007-01-13 21:57:33 · answer #1 · answered by Dan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can get a PCMCIA Network card. Jas RJ45 (cat5 or network cable) usually means broadband (cable or dsl). For dail-up (RJ11 or phonecord) a simple 56k pcmcia modem.
2007-01-14 01:55:18 · answer #2 · answered by computertech82 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get a network card that slides into your computer's expansion slot or you can get network adapters that plug into USB.
2007-01-14 01:54:55 · answer #3 · answered by cool_breeze_2444 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RJ45 jack is wider than a phone jack so it would not fit without someway to change time/space...
2007-01-14 01:56:00 · answer #4 · answered by Chris Z 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sprint sells a card you just slip into the card slot and you can get internet reception almost anywhere. i think verizon sells one to.
2007-01-14 01:50:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there sure is an external modem. i dont know abt the internet card stuff.
2007-01-14 01:51:53 · answer #6 · answered by J P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there have you can buy a usb net card. or you can install you windows again.
2007-01-14 05:30:32 · answer #7 · answered by tiger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a USB Ethernet adapter...
2007-01-14 01:57:17 · answer #8 · answered by lv_consultant 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋