Vista driver needed

[VirtualLarry]

It's a 3Com 3C509B PCI NIC. Possibly one of the most common "classic" NICs, W2K and XP have out of the box drivers for it, but yet, Vista does not. It sucks.

 

[Mem]

This one? .

TuomasK
88.192.210.x
27 Jun 2007
11:11:14 CDTWindows Vista

"Works fine with Vista"

Personally if you can't find the right driver just buy a cheap Vista COMPATIBLE NIC,not like they are expensive.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Start > control panel > classic view > problem reports and solutions > check for new solutions > view problem history

This will usually show devices that lack drivers and direct you to a driver that you can download to fix it (worked for several of my odd devices on my laptop)

 

[Bateluer]

A NIC costs about . . .what? 10 USD?

Heck, I have 3 old NICs sitting in a closet right now from different vendors.

 

[VirtualLarry]

The problem is, he uses this NIC as part of his toolkit, to work on systems, and it works on all OSes but Vista. It's just crazy that it's not supported in Vista.

I also had someone complain to me that their recently-purchased Linksys 10/100 PCI card didn't work in Vista. I was trying to sell him another card, which I assumed worked in Vista (what NICs would work in XP, but not in Vista?), but I decided not to, as the box didn't have the Vista logo on it. For all I know, it probably does NOT work in Vista. It seems that is the case for plenty of existing hardware, for no good reason I might add.

 

[bruceb]

This might work:

http://www.bestdrv.com/3com_3c509b_driver_38342.htm