Rhine eternet Rhine adapter driver

[woody]

I have 3 PC's connected to DSL through a modem feeding 3 PC's. Today one of
my PC's had a major problem with Avast being disabled and it appears a
nasty Virus or trojan may have zapped me. I run avast and spybot and
spyblaster along with windows defender and keep them updated.
I decided to wipe the c drive and reinstall windows XP.
Everything went fine except I can't connect to the Internet to update.
Looks like my Rhine 2 ethernet adapter is missing. I see a IEE 1394 but no
ethernet. I looked on the MSI driver disk but had no luck.
PC is 3MHZ AMD with 3 GB memory.
Where are the Rhine ethernet drivers?
I am pretty sure they were installed with the MSI drivers originally.
TIA

 

[tango]

I have 3 PC's connected to DSL through a modem feeding 3 PC's. Today
one of my PC's had a major problem with Avast being disabled and it
appears a nasty Virus or trojan may have zapped me. I run avast and
spybot and spyblaster along with windows defender and keep them
updated. I decided to wipe the c drive and reinstall windows XP.
Everything went fine except I can't connect to the Internet to update.
Looks like my Rhine 2 ethernet adapter is missing. I see a IEE 1394
but no ethernet. I looked on the MSI driver disk but had no luck.
PC is 3MHZ AMD with 3 GB memory.
Where are the Rhine ethernet drivers?
I am pretty sure they were installed with the MSI drivers originally.
TIA

That should read from a modem feeding a Cisco router.

 

[Paul]

I have 3 PC's connected to DSL through a modem feeding 3 PC's. Today one of
my PC's had a major problem with Avast being disabled and it appears a
nasty Virus or trojan may have zapped me. I run avast and spybot and
spyblaster along with windows defender and keep them updated.
I decided to wipe the c drive and reinstall windows XP.
Everything went fine except I can't connect to the Internet to update.
Looks like my Rhine 2 ethernet adapter is missing. I see a IEE 1394 but no
ethernet. I looked on the MSI driver disk but had no luck.
PC is 3MHZ AMD with 3 GB memory.
Where are the Rhine ethernet drivers?
I am pretty sure they were installed with the MSI drivers originally.
TIA

That would likely be "VIA Rhine". It could be the Ethernet MAC
logic block is inside the VIA Southbridge. So the driver would
come from VIA. This is their download page. And I've selected
the most likely menu items, to help you.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/support/drivers.jsp

"Microsoft Windows"

"Windows XP"

"Ethernet (Networking/LAN/WAN)"

"VT8231, VT8233, VT8235, & VT8237 Integrated (Rhine & RhineII)"

That would be one guess at a source of a driver. This is the file
you should end up with.

http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/via_rhine_ndis5_v384a.zip

Ethernet looks like this, architecturally.

Motherboard ---- MAC --- PHY --- Ethernet_Transformers --- RJ-45_connector

Sometimes the MAC and PHY are inside a separate chip, and that chip is near the
small IC-looking package containing transformers.

In the case of something like VIA Rhine, the MAC may be inside the Southbridge,
and the external chip in that case is just a PHY. The PHY would be near the
transformers and the RJ-45 connector. Sometimes the transformers are in their
own IC-like package and sometimes they're integrated into the Ethernet
connector stack.

Even if you use a program like Everest, Belarc Advisor, or the like, it
may still be hard to figure out what chip you're looking for a driver
for.

If you unzip that "v384a" ZIP file, then go to the X86 folder (for 32 bit
WinXP), then look in "FETNDIS.inf", there will be a list in there, of
the hardware the driver is intended for. Down at the end of the file,
you can see some identity strings.

VT3106S.DeviceDesc = "VIA Rhine III Management Adapter"
VT3106J.DeviceDesc = "VIA Rhine III Fast Ethernet Adapter"
VT3065.DeviceDesc = "VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter"
VT3043.DeviceDesc = "VIA VT86C100A Rhine Fast Ethernet Adapter"

Looking in the setupapi.log file on my C: drive, from when I was using
a VIA Rhine, this is the ID information for it. The driver version
I was using, was 3.67, and a bit older than the 384a available for
download now. I've since retired the motherboard, so I'm no longer
using that chip for networking. (I replaced the motherboard with
a different model.)

PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3065

"VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter"

C:\WINDOWS\vnDrvBas\FETNDIS.inf\3.67\WINSETUP.EXE

Actual install section: [VT3065.ndi.NT]

Hope that helps,
Paul

 

[tango]

I have 3 PC's connected to DSL through a modem feeding 3 PC's. Today
one of my PC's had a major problem with Avast being disabled and it
appears a nasty Virus or trojan may have zapped me. I run avast and
spybot and spyblaster along with windows defender and keep them
updated. I decided to wipe the c drive and reinstall windows XP.
Everything went fine except I can't connect to the Internet to
update. Looks like my Rhine 2 ethernet adapter is missing. I see a
IEE 1394 but no ethernet. I looked on the MSI driver disk but had no
luck. PC is 3MHZ AMD with 3 GB memory.
Where are the Rhine ethernet drivers?
I am pretty sure they were installed with the MSI drivers originally.
TIA

That would likely be "VIA Rhine". It could be the Ethernet MAC
logic block is inside the VIA Southbridge. So the driver would
come from VIA. This is their download page. And I've selected
the most likely menu items, to help you.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/support/drivers.jsp

"Microsoft Windows"

"Windows XP"

"Ethernet (Networking/LAN/WAN)"

"VT8231, VT8233, VT8235, & VT8237 Integrated (Rhine & RhineII)"

That would be one guess at a source of a driver. This is the file
you should end up with.

http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/via_rhine_ndis5_v384a.zip

Ethernet looks like this, architecturally.

Motherboard ---- MAC --- PHY --- Ethernet_Transformers ---
RJ-45_connector

Sometimes the MAC and PHY are inside a separate chip, and that chip is
near the small IC-looking package containing transformers.

In the case of something like VIA Rhine, the MAC may be inside the
Southbridge, and the external chip in that case is just a PHY. The PHY
would be near the transformers and the RJ-45 connector. Sometimes the
transformers are in their own IC-like package and sometimes they're
integrated into the Ethernet connector stack.

Even if you use a program like Everest, Belarc Advisor, or the like,
it may still be hard to figure out what chip you're looking for a
driver for.

If you unzip that "v384a" ZIP file, then go to the X86 folder (for 32
bit WinXP), then look in "FETNDIS.inf", there will be a list in there,
of the hardware the driver is intended for. Down at the end of the
file, you can see some identity strings.

VT3106S.DeviceDesc = "VIA Rhine III Management Adapter"
VT3106J.DeviceDesc = "VIA Rhine III Fast Ethernet Adapter"
VT3065.DeviceDesc = "VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter"
VT3043.DeviceDesc = "VIA VT86C100A Rhine Fast Ethernet Adapter"

Looking in the setupapi.log file on my C: drive, from when I was using
a VIA Rhine, this is the ID information for it. The driver version
I was using, was 3.67, and a bit older than the 384a available for
download now. I've since retired the motherboard, so I'm no longer
using that chip for networking. (I replaced the motherboard with
a different model.)

PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3065

"VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter"

C:\WINDOWS\vnDrvBas\FETNDIS.inf\3.67\WINSETUP.EXE

Actual install section: [VT3065.ndi.NT]

Hope that helps,
Paul

Thanks paul, I finally found the right MSI driver CD for the motherboard
and all is well except for updating and adding all the goodies back.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

You'll want to either Reset or Reinstall that router, kid.

I have 3 PC's connected to DSL through a modem feeding 3 PC's. Today
one of my PC's had a major problem with Avast being disabled and it
appears a nasty Virus or trojan may have zapped me. I run avast and
spybot and spyblaster along with windows defender and keep them
updated. I decided to wipe the c drive and reinstall windows XP.
Everything went fine except I can't connect to the Internet to
update. Looks like my Rhine 2 ethernet adapter is missing. I see a
IEE 1394 but no ethernet. I looked on the MSI driver disk but had no
luck. PC is 3MHZ AMD with 3 GB memory.
Where are the Rhine ethernet drivers?
I am pretty sure they were installed with the MSI drivers originally.
TIA

That would likely be "VIA Rhine". It could be the Ethernet MAC
logic block is inside the VIA Southbridge. So the driver would
come from VIA. This is their download page. And I've selected
the most likely menu items, to help you.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/support/drivers.jsp

"Microsoft Windows"

"Windows XP"

"Ethernet (Networking/LAN/WAN)"

"VT8231, VT8233, VT8235, & VT8237 Integrated (Rhine & RhineII)"

That would be one guess at a source of a driver. This is the file
you should end up with.

http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/via_rhine_ndis5_v384a.zip

Ethernet looks like this, architecturally.

Motherboard ---- MAC --- PHY --- Ethernet_Transformers ---
RJ-45_connector

Sometimes the MAC and PHY are inside a separate chip, and that chip is
near the small IC-looking package containing transformers.

In the case of something like VIA Rhine, the MAC may be inside the
Southbridge, and the external chip in that case is just a PHY. The PHY
would be near the transformers and the RJ-45 connector. Sometimes the
transformers are in their own IC-like package and sometimes they're
integrated into the Ethernet connector stack.

Even if you use a program like Everest, Belarc Advisor, or the like,
it may still be hard to figure out what chip you're looking for a
driver for.

If you unzip that "v384a" ZIP file, then go to the X86 folder (for 32
bit WinXP), then look in "FETNDIS.inf", there will be a list in there,
of the hardware the driver is intended for. Down at the end of the
file, you can see some identity strings.

VT3106S.DeviceDesc = "VIA Rhine III Management Adapter"
VT3106J.DeviceDesc = "VIA Rhine III Fast Ethernet Adapter"
VT3065.DeviceDesc = "VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter"
VT3043.DeviceDesc = "VIA VT86C100A Rhine Fast Ethernet Adapter"

Looking in the setupapi.log file on my C: drive, from when I was using
a VIA Rhine, this is the ID information for it. The driver version
I was using, was 3.67, and a bit older than the 384a available for
download now. I've since retired the motherboard, so I'm no longer
using that chip for networking. (I replaced the motherboard with
a different model.)

PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3065

"VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter"

C:\WINDOWS\vnDrvBas\FETNDIS.inf\3.67\WINSETUP.EXE

Actual install section: [VT3065.ndi.NT]

Hope that helps,
Paul

Thanks paul, I finally found the right MSI driver CD for the motherboard
and all is well except for updating and adding all the goodies back.

 

[tango]

You'll want to either Reset or Reinstall that router, kid.

Really, that's the first thing I did. Then I noticed the rhine 2 ethernet
didn't show up under networks. I could not initially find the MSI CD which
came with the motherboard when I built the PC.
Once I installed the correct ethernet driver, it immediately saw the router
and worked.
Seeing as how I am a 66 year old kid, you remind me of getting my ID
checked when going into a club.
I think I remember that?
The other side of that is when the kids start calling you sir.
Thanks for the response.

 

[choro]

Really, that's the first thing I did. Then I noticed the rhine 2
ethernet didn't show up under networks. I could not initially find
the MSI CD which came with the motherboard when I built the PC.
Once I installed the correct ethernet driver, it immediately saw the
router and worked.
Seeing as how I am a 66 year old kid,

Hey, stop bragging about your age son. I started getting interested in
computers when I was about your age. And I have built over half a dozen
computers and repaired more than that number since.