Help! Network drivers...

recently I bought a Dell Studio 1737 laptop, I *stupidly* uninstalled Vista in hopes of being able to use XP Pro on it, but I couldn't find the drivers for XP so I re-installed Vista. problem is, upon using the re-installation disc, it didn't install any of the drivers. it only installed the base operating system, so i've been searching on the internet for literally at least 4 hours now trying to find the drivers I need

I still have 4 devices in the device manager I am unsure of and need help:

under other devices with a yellow exclamation mark (!):
Ethernet Controller
Network Controller
SM Bus controller
Unknown Device

I am now incredibly frustrated because when I first got the laptop Vista was installed on it already, and everything worked perfectly. I was connected to the internet within about 5 minutes of turning it on, now however, it can't even detect it

If anyone can help or guide me to a place to look for help, please do, I don't know what network card or anything it has but the spec of the laptop is here:

200-57409 1 N0173504 S
210-25282 Studio 1737 : Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 (2.26GHz,1066MHz,3MB) 1 S
230-10178 Display : 17in Widescreen WXGA+ with Truelife- CCFL 1 S
214-10049 Palmrest : Standard 1 S
235-13534 50% saving on Mobile Broadband module 1 S
239-12454 Save £170 (inc VAT) 1 S
319-10048 Camera : Integrated 2.0 Mega Pixel Camera - CCFL 1 S
320-10287 LCD Back Cover : Jet Black Colour Matte Finish 1 S
340-15810 Resource DVD : Studio 1737 Diagnostics and Drivers 1 S
340-15785 Ship Accessory : English Docs 1 S
340-15380 Ship Accessories Euro Studio 1735 1 S
370-13694 Memory : 4096MB (2x2048) 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel 1 S
400-14158 Hard Drive 320GB SATA (5400rpm) 1 S
429-13240 Optical Drive : 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including software 1 S
450-12188 Power Cord : UK 1M 1 S
450-12232 Power Supply : Inspiron 90W AC Adapter 1 S
451-10566 Battery : Primary 6 cell 56W/HR LI-ION 1 S
460-10268 Belkin Neoprene Sleeve for Notebooks up to 17" - Black / Red 1 S
490-10913 Graphics : 256 MB ATI Mobility RADEON HD 3650 1 S
555-11450 Wireless Label (Intel Wireless Cards)- Core 2 Duo 1 S
555-11604 Wireless : Intel WiFi Link 5100 (802.11 a/b/g/n 1X2) 1/2 MiniCard European 1 S
555-11607 Wireless : Europe Dell Bluetooth 370 Card 1 S
556-10434 UK - Internal Dell Wireless 5530 built-in 3G/HSDPA with SIM for Vodafone service 1 S
583-12117 Keyboard : Internal UK English Qwerty Keyboard 1 S
619-12673 Operating System : English Genuine Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium including Media 1 S
630-11001 English Microsoft Works 9.0 (Word Processor, Database) with Recovery CD 1 S
640-10551 Dell Support Center 2.0 1 S
640-10787 Dell Video Chat 1 S
640-10784 eBay Web Access Icon 1 S
640-10785 Dell Dock 1.0 1 S

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copied from the invoice I got from the dell website, but I think most of the info is there.

Thanks in advance >.<

 

You should be able to get all the drivers you need from here.

Ethernet Controller = Broadcom - Driver
Network Controller = Intel - Driver (under Network)
SMBus might come under GM45 Express Chipset Family
lol unknown might be ricoh card reader

 

Thanks so much for your help, I only have 1 thing left in the device manager and that's the unknown device - it wasn't the Ricoh driver apparantly.
Any ideas?

 

In Device Manager, right click 'Unknown Device' go to Properties -> Details -> Hardware Ids and post the first line.

eg. PCI\VEN_8086\DEV_3582\SUBSYS_018d

 

Property:
Hardware Ids

Value:
ACPI\ITE8708
*ITE8708

I'm not sure if the I\I bit is L\L or i\i, but thats from the details section

 

apparently ACPI\ITE8708 is ITECIR INFRARED RECEIVER (EC)

 

fantastic! all the drivers are installed and everything is working! thank you so much!
another unrelated question, not sure if you'll be able to answer it either; for some reason i can't hold down the shift or ctrl keys and continually have the effect work (for example in an online game if i have a skill or something set to shift/ctrl i have to repeatedly tap the key to spam it, i can't hold it to spam it.) any idea how to fix this?