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| Thread ID: 53310 | 2005-01-13 23:56:00 | Which Network card? | Edward (31) | Press F1 |
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| 313759 | 2005-01-13 23:56:00 | Hi everyone. I'm in need of some help finding which Network card I've got. It's a Genius card, but that's all I can find out. It came in a GF100TXR4 box, with GE2500III SE Drivers, but I don't think it's either. On the card, it says 10 base-T, but that's all I can find out. It's a PCI card. I've tried it's drivers, but Windows 95 comes up with a yellow circle with a black !. I'm about to try the GF100TXR4 drivers, but if they don't work I don't want to go through every single driver. Everest dosen't provide any info (not useful), so if there's another tool that I cam put on a CD that will scan, it would be great :) Does anyone know of such a program? I got the card from a friend, and he doen't know what it is either. Thanks, Edward |
Edward (31) | ||
| 313760 | 2005-01-14 00:25:00 | Is there no obvious identifying letters and numbers on the chips (10 base T is not what your after)? look at the Genius website for drivers with similar numbers, chips often run in families with drivers doing a whole series of chips. Right click in Device manager, choose Properties, Update driver, let Windows search, if it doesn't find a suitable driver choose Select from List, choose Genius then try one of the models, you may have to try several to get it to work. Download Sisoft Sandra (get the right version for 95), it should be able to ID it for you. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 313761 | 2005-01-14 00:40:00 | You can identify a lot of cards by the FCC ID printed on the circuit board somewhere. When you find this, head off to www.fcc.gov and perform a search. | agent (30) | ||
| 313762 | 2005-01-14 00:43:00 | Go to the shop and invest $10 in a 100Mbit card with drivers on a floppy. You won't regret it. If you think that is a waste of a good card (good card -> crap PC), then just ignore this comment :). Otherwise, enter numbers on the biggest chip into Google. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 313763 | 2005-01-14 00:53:00 | i'll take George's suggestion and get a 100mbit card. It's not work spending huge amounts of time on something that old EDIT: $15 DSE one: how canI go wrong? :) |
Edward (31) | ||
| 313764 | 2005-01-14 01:55:00 | Incredibly wrong. Get a >$100 3Com card. ;) | agent (30) | ||
| 313765 | 2005-01-14 02:24:00 | Or better yet get a Gigabit card from Dick Smith for $29.95 I have never had any problems with these cards, even though I am not really a fan of dick smith | Odin (227) | ||
| 313766 | 2005-01-14 02:48:00 | They are good, but the switches are pretty expensive. We need at least 24-port or a couple of 8's, and they're pretty dear! $362.95 is the cheapest on Pricespy..... |
george12 (7) | ||
| 313767 | 2005-01-14 03:04:00 | If you have a Linux box, or a Live CD (Knoppix, Morphix ...) plug the card in, and boot the Linux. If you aren't quick enough at reading the hardware identification (or they hide that behind a splash screen) enter the command (as root) dmesg | less. Linux is very good at indentifying network cards. It's a pretty good OS, too. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 313768 | 2005-01-14 04:19:00 | Why not just use Everest Home Edition? Free 4mb Download and its never failed me yet? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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