NIC Card Problem.

[Guest]

I have a Realtek based NIC card and lost the card from my hardware. I booted
the system one day and the OS came up with the ‘New Hardware Found’ dialogue
box. I tried to install the driver again with no success. I went to
Realtek’s website and downloaded the latest driver. Then I went to Encore’s,
the card manufacturer, website, then to network-drivers.com. No driver
worked. I resorted to reinstalling the OS since I was thinking of doing this
anyways. [I download all updates as self install, just in case of situations
as this.] After updating the system (I removed the card during the OS
revamp) I installed the card and proceeded to install the driver from Realtek.

This happened every time: a message appears that the install was
unsuccessful because a file could not be found. The name of the file is not
given. Why is this happening?

I was thinking it has to due with the hardware computability problem. A
dialogue box appears during the install process warning of unknown
compatibility. There is a *.CAT file with an expired certificate with the
driver.

Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.
Thank you,
Mark N. McAllister

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "MNM" <[email protected]>

| I have a Realtek based NIC card and lost the card from my hardware. I booted
| the system one day and the OS came up with the ‘New Hardware Found’ dialogue
| box. I tried to install the driver again with no success. I went to
| Realtek’s website and downloaded the latest driver. Then I went to Encore’s,
| the card manufacturer, website, then to network-drivers.com. No driver
| worked. I resorted to reinstalling the OS since I was thinking of doing this
| anyways. [I download all updates as self install, just in case of situations
| as this.] After updating the system (I removed the card during the OS
| revamp) I installed the card and proceeded to install the driver from Realtek.
|
| This happened every time: a message appears that the install was
| unsuccessful because a file could not be found. The name of the file is not
| given. Why is this happening?
|
| I was thinking it has to due with the hardware computability problem. A
| dialogue box appears during the install process warning of unknown
| compatibility. There is a *.CAT file with an expired certificate with the
| driver.
|
| Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.
| Thank you,
| Mark N. McAllister
|

Replace the RealTek NIC. They are both cheap and crap.

Replace it with a 3COM, Netgear or Linksys NIC { in that order }.