Need to find Windows driver for a USB NIC (yep, USB go figure)

[brinstar117]

Good day fellow AnandTech'ers!

This sounds silly but I need a driver for a USB NIC I just received from the For Sale/Trade forum. I just found out that it's an @home USB to ethernet adapter.

It uses the Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B chipset. (I opened it up to check)

However, the only drivers I can seem to find for it are for OpenBSD and Linux. I fear that one of the factors for why it won't plug 'n play is because it's an "@home" branded NIC (provided to @home customers with cable service and used @home's own drivers/disks to install?)

At any rate, I would like any functional driver

I tried force installing another driver from another USB NIC that had the same chipset, but Windows wouldn't let me. So now I'm feeling dumb and posting up a storm. Thanks!

 

[Nohr]

Did a little searching around and I found this. Hope it helps you out.
http://www2.driverguide.com/uploads/uploads9/20860.html

 

[brinstar117]

Thanks for the reply Nohr, I'll try that out.


I found some promising information about my mystery NIC.

I opened it up and compared it to the 3com 3C19250, here are some pics of it:

3com 3c19250

They layout on my NIC is exactly the same. The etched labels on the PCB matches exactly as well. The only difference is that instead of an ISSI chip on the one in the pic, there's an Inbound chip with the same pin configuration. The rest of the chips are either identical or are the same brand with slightly different numbers on them. The last difference is that the model sticker label is 143045-005 5 BO instead of 143045-001 9 BH (as on the bottom picture).

 

[Nohr]

Guess that means you could give 3Com's drivers a try if those other ones don't work. I'm sure you've found them already, but here they are for convenience sake.


ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c19250/usb1_2.zip

3C19250 Driver- Notes: This driver is for the USB Network Interface, which is a USB to Ethernet adapter. The operating systems for this product are Windows 98/SE/ME. For more information, please download, unzip and read the readme.