Missing PCI Simple Communications Controller Driver, Dell Optiplex 790 Jump to solution Installed new OS and then installed the drivers from driver disk in correct order, however, the PCI Simple Communications Controller Driver is missing and does not appear to be on the driver cd and I have had no luck on the Internet. If you go in device manager, click on the pci simple communications controller, go in property and then go in details. You will see a code like per example PCI/VEN8086&DEV27D8&SUBSYS.

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Reinstalled XP Media Center using non-Gateway CDs on this 825GM desktop. Naturally enough I have no ethernet drivers, so I used another PC and went to the Gateway site. They had 2 drivers listed under the LAN heading:

Marvell Yukon 88E8050 PCI-E ASF Gigabit Ethernet Controller Drive

and one just called

LAN Driver

The one called LAN driver extracts into a folder with several txt files, most of them specifying what type of motherboard I should have for this driver, but one, a yuknd.txt file has
1 Overview
The driver yuknd.dos is the NDIS2 driver for the Microsoft Network Client
for DOS for the Marvell Yukon Ethernet Controller.
2 Required Files
YUKND.DOS the driver
OEMSETUP.INF installation skript
PROTOCOL.INI SAMPLE configuration file
Microsoft Network Client 3.0 for MS-DOS
3 Installation
When installing the Microsoft Network Client for DOS follow these steps
to install yuknd.dos:
1. Start the installation of the Microsoft Network Client.
2. When you are prompted to select a network adapter, select
'Network adapter not shown on list below ...'.
3. Enter the path where the files yuknd.dos and
oemsetup.inf are located.
I have no idea what they're talking about - I simply want to be able to have a wired internet connection.
The other zip file extract contains another text file that asks me to check my BIOS revision to be if this is applicable. It is. So I go to Device Manager, select Network adapters and install the driver. But I notice under 'Other Devices'

is a yellow question mark to the left of

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Ethernet Controller

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. I don't know what the difference is between Network Adapter and Ethernet Controller - I always thought they were the same thing.

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Anyway, the upshot is that when I attempt to open internet explorer I get a box saying 'This computer does not have an internet connection'. Since I've downloaded the only 2 LAN drivers listed, what do I do next?
Additional info , There is NO Wired AutoConfig listed in services.msc. Since this was a fresh install I don't know how that happended, but is it a situation where I need that service running first, or should installing the proper driver give me the service?