Re: Network Cards for W2003

Hi,

what you can do when buying new computer or component for the computer is to
make sure that you will get drivers for the operating system you plan to run
on the computer. Best way to do is to visit support site of component
vendor.

I know that it is hard to get drivers for NIC for Windows Server 2003.
Personally I usually use Intel NIC since (most) of them do have support for
e.g. Windows Server 2003, but I can imagine that they cost a bit more then
e.g. D-Link.

Good luck :-)

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

"Charlie Tame" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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