Network card issue

[BobWerner]

I had a networkeverywhere 100mb PCI NIC card in my Win2k server. I had previously downloaded the drivers from their website.
I can't get Win2k to recognize the card. I finally put in a 3c509B ISA card. This card is only 10mb.

My WinXP machine has a 100mb card built in and I was wanting to go as fast as I can. Any ideas?

Thanks again,
Bob

[techleet]

If the 10/100mb card is built on to the board, make sure it's enabled in the BIOS. If there's no setting in the bios, check the motherboard manual for a possible jumper setting for enabling the nic.

If that doesn't work it could be a dead card... and LEAST likely of all it could be non-plug&play, in which case just run the Add/Remove Hardware wizard and manually choose a NIC and feed it the drivers.

But come on if you have $30 go buy a new NIC and save yourself the trouble

[BobWerner]

No, this isn't a built in nic on the Win2k machine. It's a networkeverywhere 10/100 PCI card. Win2k just puts a yellow exclamation point and when I try to feed it the drivers it ignores me. I'm just wondering if this card isn't compatable with Win2k.
Right now I'm using a 10mb 3C509B card in the 2k machine and it's working fine. I was just trying to find out if anyone else had experience with the networkeverywhere card and getting it to load in Win2k server.

[NooNoo]

Exactly which error code does it give in device manager for the networkeverywhere nic? I did have a couple of these, worked fine for a while in 9x boxes, did a reload and now they are in the emergency only bin

[BobWerner]

Originally posted by NooNoo
Exactly which error code does it give in device manager for the networkeverywhere nic? I did have a couple of these, worked fine for a while in 9x boxes, did a reload and now they are in the emergency only bin

Boy, now there's a good question. If I remember correctly it was an error 12 or 22 Card not initialized because no driver was detected. Or something to that effect. I would right click on the card, go to properties then try update driver and Win2k would ignore the driver.
If I uninstalled and reinstalled and pointed the wizard to the floppy with the drivers, again, ignore. No compatable driver found or something like that.

As I said, this really isn't an issue as I loaded a 3C509B card in the machine and Win2k was happy as a clam. I even went out and bought an 80 wire 40 pin IDE cable and installed it.

Win2k is running fine. I was just wondering about that wierdness.

[NooNoo]

Yep that was the one... no idea why it wouldn't take the driver.