Do you know of any way I could reset the settings my self?
Sorry, I'm still working on that myself for my HP notebook nic. One approach I might tak involves getting my hands on another notebook, which presents it's own problems. This might ne less of an issue with an inexpensive nic card. I'm also wondering if I can set the card to something that works without knowing the original settings, but still need to do some tests before I can post on that (it may be a little while, I have a deadline on another project fast approaching). If you want to experiment on your own, see mii-tool that is on the knoppix CD and mii-diag at http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html and let us know if you do make progress.