Re: Network Cards for W2003
- From: "Charlie Tame" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 07:25:48 -0500
Thanks for the reply.
Basically I've been asked a few times "Will such and such run on my old PC"
and two things enabled me to finally come up with some answers. First I got
an MSDN sub which got me the various OSs for test purposes and second my
company upgraded to new hardware and the old machines had to go, however the
hard drives had to be rendered totally unreadable (4 pound hammer etc).
Just out of curiosity I've tried XP and Pro and quite honestly was very
impressed with what XP can still use, in fact it coped with some truly
oddball "Onboard" stuff and I can't recall one failure. Obviously the main
thing is that XP needs more RAM, and in fact even on slower processors the
lack of RAM is the killer not the basic "Speed".
I had sort of assumed that MS would be dropping much of the real old stuff
for servers, but some of the cards were not that old and it seems that even
cards with "XP" drivers have no support either from the makers or within
2003. At the same time it does seem to cope with some old "Compaq" cards etc
I would certainly not have expected :) Seems that the observations are not
just "Me" then so thanks for your time in responding. Other than that minor
nag W2003 seems to be a viable upgrade path even without the expense of top
of the range new hardware for the smaller company. Not everyone needs super
fast servers :)
Thanks again
Charlie
"Miha Pihler [MVP]" <mihap-news@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Charlie,
I agree with you and I often run into the same problem. (Unfortunately)
the responsibility for developing drivers for different OS belong to
hardware manufacturers. So if you want your D-Link and LinkSys cards to
work under Windows Server 2003 you should be really talking to D-Link and
LinkSys support...
--
Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security
"Charlie Tame" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Definitely NOT mission critical, but I hate to admit defeat :)
XP is impressive in the range of hardware it already knows about but
W2003 not so... I've been playing around with some hardware combinations
and even relatively new cards do not show compatibility with W2003 on the
box, commonly the most recent OS shown is XP. I'm finding I get problems
with relatively recent LinkSys, D-Link and others yet it does seem to
work with some older cards - the opposite of what I had expected really.
Soooo, my question is has anyone managed to get (say) a LinkSys LNE100-TX
or similar working with it and if so what driver?
As I said this is not a huge problem, I was just curious if anyone has
found a workaround for "Difficult" cards or maybe better still has a
recommendation for a good card that is known to work.
(Example on a dual boot XP / 2003 machine numerous cards run fine under
XP and not at all under 2003 - and it's obviously not the hardware).
TIA for any comments.
Charlie
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