Im looking to get this resolved on winxp and also for a future install of gentoo. I got this laptop and it came with vista on it. Immediately I replaced vista with XP and I have never been able to find the ethernet controller driver. I am looking to install gentoo in the next coming week and I am trying to get drivers ahead of time but I am coming up short. I can't find the driver for the lan device for either gentoo or winXP. The model number for the laptop is 5610-2089

It would help if you knew the chipset of the lan card..Vista might have told it, but I think you could use a live-cd Linux to try and determine it (lspci?)

Then when you know the chipset, you can try to search for a driver for that chipset for Linux or maybe even for XP..but it is completely possible that the driver for that chipset is released only for Vista and not XP (in Windows), so you might have trouble finding it for XP. These driver-things are a pain in the back sometimes..

If you can, post the relevant lspci-output here if somebody knew better then.

Hi k4ution, You should be able to find the Windows drivers here.
Good luck. ;-)