Why won't my Ethernet cable work on my Windows Partition on my iMac?

I have just purchased an iMac and have set up a Windows 7 partiton. However my ethernet connection that works just fine when I use the Mac OS does not work at all on my windows partition.
It will not let me update my driver since the driver apparently cannot be found, and I obviously cannot find it on the internet since I have no connection!
Has anyone had the same problem or know how to get around this?

How is MS Windows installed? Are you using Boot Camp, Fusion, Parallels etc... and if so why not post on those forums. If the issue is Windows related then the issue isn't an iMac issue, it's a Windows problem probably to do with some setting.

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