- May 6, 2011
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Probably a shot in the dark here, but why not?!
I have a Window Home Server box, a tiny Asus Mini TS machine. It's been a real pleasure over the years and the tiny Atom-based processor is extremely power-efficient.
The box only has a 10MB hard-wired LAN connection, which can be a bit of a nuisance the rare times I have to recover a machine image.
So I went out and purchased a Gigabit USB LAN adapter, a Startech product qualified for most Windows OSes including Server 2003. Windows Home Server is based on Server 2003, so I was hopeful that the device would work.
Unfortunately for me, it doesn't. The drivers aren't recognized by Windows Home Server and thus the request for manually installing appropriate drivers is displayed.
This machine really is Server 2003, and I'd guess some subtlety of machine identification is causing the failure to install those drivers.
By any miracle has anyone had need to fight a similar problem? The folks at Startech weren't able to help. I'd like to think I could diddle an INF file or the like to allow the adapter drivers to successfully load.
Art
I have a Window Home Server box, a tiny Asus Mini TS machine. It's been a real pleasure over the years and the tiny Atom-based processor is extremely power-efficient.
The box only has a 10MB hard-wired LAN connection, which can be a bit of a nuisance the rare times I have to recover a machine image.
So I went out and purchased a Gigabit USB LAN adapter, a Startech product qualified for most Windows OSes including Server 2003. Windows Home Server is based on Server 2003, so I was hopeful that the device would work.
Unfortunately for me, it doesn't. The drivers aren't recognized by Windows Home Server and thus the request for manually installing appropriate drivers is displayed.
This machine really is Server 2003, and I'd guess some subtlety of machine identification is causing the failure to install those drivers.
By any miracle has anyone had need to fight a similar problem? The folks at Startech weren't able to help. I'd like to think I could diddle an INF file or the like to allow the adapter drivers to successfully load.
Art