Re: Network Cards for W2003
- From: "Charlie Tame" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:27:15 -0500
I got one from local supplier (DIT) which is called a Airnet AES100 and uses
the realtek chipset for the ridiculously high price of $7.95 and it works
fine, ignoring the windows wizard which is no use to man nor beast in the
circumstances.
Cancel Wizard, Open the CD, click install.
Damn, that was hard.... not the installation, just getting the $7.95 out of
my wallet :)
Charlie
"Miha Pihler [MVP]" <mihap-news@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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