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nic driver not found

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    marty

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    I've installed an evaluation copy of Win Server 2003 as a dual boot with a box in my office running W98 or 95 (forget which).

    It seems that the nic on that box, a Netgear FA310TX doesn't have a driver available for that OS, they only list 410TX, 510TX for that line of netgears. Any ideas short of changing nics?
     
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    I have the same nic on my win2kpro system, drivers are on the netgear floppy.
     
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    found this on Google:


    ...you can use a Netgear FA310TX nic on windows server 2003, the problem isn't the OS, it's in the *.INF files that come with the card, or via download, they are NOT set correctly for this version of windows, you can however install the nick in a windows XP machine and then copy the driver and INF files to a floppy disk (only two files)

    FILES:
    net21x4.inf
    ngrpci.sys

    I burned the entire WinXP \windows\inf\ directory to a CD and let Windows Server 2003 hardware wizard search it. It found a matching file. Then it needed ngrpci.sys but it couldn't get it from i386\driver.cab (any Windows version) so I extracted it manually.

    (Actually, when I had ngrpci.sys on floppy the driver guide said it could not find the path specified. When copied to C: it finally worked.)

    I'm using ngrpci.sys:

    Version: 4.56.16.10
    Desc: NDIS 5.0 miniport driver
    Internal name, and original name: Fa310nd5.sys
    Size: 32840 bytes
     
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