Ghost network adapter showing up and causing problems...

[jaedend]

I have a machine that for some reason doesn't have an ethernet port on
it. So I pulled an 8139 asound LAN card from another machine I'm not
using and installed it in this machine. I downloaded the drivers
(driverguide), set up the properties, and everything worked great -
communicating, network access, internet's fine.... until reboot. When
I turned the machine on the next morning it detected another network
card (nvidia nforce mcp network adapter). Now all of a sudden the
network card I installed is not working. It grabs dhcp but I cannot
ping anyone, not even my router. Does anyone know why my machine would
be detecting this ghost adapter? I tried disabling it but my network
card still wont work. any ideas?

 

[Quaoar]

I have a machine that for some reason doesn't have an ethernet port on
it. So I pulled an 8139 asound LAN card from another machine I'm not
using and installed it in this machine. I downloaded the drivers
(driverguide), set up the properties, and everything worked great -
communicating, network access, internet's fine.... until reboot.
When I turned the machine on the next morning it detected another
network card (nvidia nforce mcp network adapter). Now all of a
sudden the network card I installed is not working. It grabs dhcp
but I cannot ping anyone, not even my router. Does anyone know why
my machine would be detecting this ghost adapter? I tried disabling
it but my network card still wont work. any ideas?

Well, when the 'new' card was installed and the computer booted, the OS
found this 'new' card and assigned it to the nVidia device. This was
probably before you installed the driver for the card. I would boot to
safe mode and remove all network adapters, and reboot. Hopefully, there
will be only one network card found and you'll have the chance to point
the hardware wizard to the *.inf file for the correct driver, if that is
in fact a good driver for the card.

Q