Hello. i have a ibm thinkpad i series 1300 1171-1vu laptop running windows xp and its not wanting

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i have a ibm thinkpad i series 1300 1171-1vu laptop running windows xp and its not wanting to read my ethernet port in device manager i have wireless card in it but want to use reagluar hook up its making me mad i cant find any solutions ive tried several things i cant find a driver for it because its not reading it, i bought this old thing from a friend of mine and it came like that i dont know what to do please help me