Installing CNET #7C712 Ethernet Card

Did the drivers install correctly when you installed the card?  Does the card show up in Device Manager under Network adpaters and not show any problems?  What are you connecting the card to (LAN, cable modem, dsl modem)?  Which version of Windows are you running? 

Steve

When I installed the driver, I got "successful installation". It is in my C drive as a separate file. The Network card is installed, but not showing up in the "Divce Manager". Should it? If so, how do I make it install there? I don't know about the connection because my husband installed it and isn't home now, We have the RCA broadband modem. Again, can you suggest what it should be connecting to and we can try you suggestions tonight and see if it works. My pc has Window's 98 on it.
Thank you so much for your advice.

Do you mean you saved the download and then ran the file you downloaded?  With the ethernet card in the computer?  Is that when you got the "successful installation" message?  If so, and after a reboot, there isn't an entry in the Ethernet Adapter section of the Device Manager?

Searching the part, I found a thread mentioning it - it is a PCI ethernet card for a desktop?  Is it fully seated into the PCI slot in the motherboard?  It has to be "snapped" into the slot fully.

All my husband did was plug in the card and nothing else. I believe my PC is connected to LAN, but he did not do any setting changes. I don't believe there were instructions in the box.
I downloaded the driver from online to the c drive and the Newwork card cable was not plugged in. When I do plug the cable in the light goes on at the connection at the back of the PC, so I assume its in snuggly.
I was thinking, should I download the driver to a disc and then reinstall the card and then download the driver and designate to a particular area? If so, where should I designate that it downloads to?

All my husband did was plug in the card and nothing else. I believe my PC is connected to LAN, but he did not do any setting changes. I don't believe there were instructions in the box.
I downloaded the driver from online to the PC and the Newwork card cable was not plugged in. When I do plug the cable in the light goes on at the connection at the back of the PC, so I assume its in snuggly.
I was thinking, should I download the driver to a disc and then reinstall the card and then download the driver and designate to a particular area? If so, where should I designate that it downloads to?

After downloading the driver to the hard drive, it is not installed, just saved locally.  On the desktop, right-click the My Computer icon, choose Properties, then the Hardware tab, the Device Manager button in the middle, and look in the Network Adapters area for the card - it probably has a yellow ! there and a red X.  Double click that entry, then the Driver tab, Install or Update Driver button (not sure what it will say with no driver), then when the Utility starts, click next and then check the Display a list... entry and  Next, check only to specify a location, then point to the driver you downloaded.  It will load and maybe want to reboot.  If the file you downloaded is a .zip or .exe file, run it first to get the files out of the download file - put them in a folder like c:\drivers\network or something easy to find and understand.