Well... kudos for Microsoft for having such consistency across it's online systems. While the HCL clearly identifies the LNE100TX as compatible, the catalog site comes up with nothing for wired Linksys adapters or LNE100TX. I've submitted a correction for the HCL.
However, installing the card in a Win7 machine that already has a network connection and then going to Windows Update to get a driver gets the same driver I found before that wouldn't install with Devcon. It appeared to install and function OK, but I didn't test very much, just long enough to grab the driver files (and then find out I already had them). Finally, I was able to get that driver (for "Infineon AN983B") to install using the Core Configurator, where I had to approve the install it since it wasn't considered compatible, probably why Devcon wouldn't install it. But even after that, it wouldn't work, because it was an unsigned driver. I had to use dseo13b.exe (driver signature enforcement overrider) to sign the driver and put the platform into "test mode" to avoid driver signature verification. Strangely, that wasn't needed when WU installed it on Windows 7. Yes, I should just get a compatible NIC, but for the moment, I'm working with what I had on hand. Carl From: James Hill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 11:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How can I download drivers that would automatically install for Windows 7 or 2008R2? You should be able to download the driver from http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/ From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 26 June 2010 7:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How can I download drivers that would automatically install for Windows 7 or 2008R2? This is Hyper-V which is similar to Server Core where some things don't happen automatically as they do under the GUI versions of Windows. My quoting of "installs automatically" from the HCL was offered as proof that compatible drivers exist and Microsoft has them. They just won't make them available for general download. And the manufacturers of such devices don't make them available either, since Microsoft has taken over the distribution job. Hmmm... this Hyper-V server is talking to a WSUS server for updates... I wonder if the HV update installer would find a device driver if I added device driver downloads to WSUS.... hmmm. Carl From: Mike Gill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 3:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How can I download drivers that would automatically install for Windows 7 or 2008R2? Am I missing something? If they install automatically, why do you have to download anything at all? -- Mike Gill From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: How can I download drivers that would automatically install for Windows 7 or 2008R2? I had a management NIC fail in a Hyper-V R2 server. Not having an equivalent spare handy, I would like to use the spare I do have, in this case a Linksys LNE100TX that is listed in the HCL for Windows 7 as "installs automatically". Is my only choice to make this work to re-install Hyper-V R2 from scratch? It seems if I simply had the driver files I could install them with DEVCON. The only ones I can find online are XP 64-bit drivers from 2005, which devcon fails to install. Thanks, Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
