I have found the driver and the ethernet card works and i can getr on line with my cable line....but now i have another problem...my internet explorer is having errors on almost every page and says it's perfoming an illegal action and it closes..what is the cause of this....is just this just an outdated and doesn't work anymore...i tried to go to the microsoft internet explorer website to download updates....but my IE has problems with scripts and syntax errors and the page rarely is able to load at all...or if it does load it barely loads, leaving out many words and images...is there a way of solving this problem other than using windows 2000....should i just toss this notebook to the graveyard?....it is from 1998...The reason i ask if there is another way than using windows is cause than when i do format the notebook with 2000 it runs kinda slow cause it's an old notebook.. please reply...thanks

I have a sony vaio 200mhz MMX Technology, 2.0 GB HD, 128 MB ram

No, don't throw out the laptop!

Going by your post of "syntax" errors, you are probably trying to run a copy of IE that is too old.

Through all of my experience with legacy systems (95 and NT), I have found that most browsers below IE 5.0 will yield syntax and scripting errors.

Installing IE 5.0 SP2 or later should fix these problems.

To download a good browser, follow this link. It is a very basic page and doesn't require fancy JS etc. (You can access it with IE 3.0!)

http://browsers.evolt.org/download.p...2/ie501sp2.exe

I recommend the UK Mirror Service, all the others are slow:

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/b...2/ie501sp2.exe