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55speedracer55

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Hi,

I need drivers for my network card. The card is a netgear fa311 fast ethernet pci card and the OS is Win 2000 Pro.

Can someone please help me out in finding the right drivers please? Much appreciated for any help you can provide.
 
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FA311 Family Support Page there is two drivers available there was two versions of that card made make sure you get the right one. That page will show you how to find the right version.
 
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Ok, I tried both of them and neither worked.
It doesn't recognize either of them. Am I doing something wrong? I go into device mgr, I see a yellow ! and I see it next to ethernet controller, RC on it and select properties, select reinstall driver, wizard comes up and I select next, select search for suitable driver for my device, select check on floppy (which is what I put it on from that page) and select next, check off floppy disk drive and select next, and then it comes back saying windows was unable to locate a driver for this device. I then select finish.

It just won't work and I can't figure out why. Any ideas why?
 
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Yes they are the right ones with the info you have given.
 
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That almost worked. I did what this page "Ethernet Adapter Will Not Install on Windows 2000" said to do, I got the OS to recognize the drivers, it listed it as "netgear fa311 fast ethernet pci adapter" but there is a yellow ! on it. Is there a way to fix this?
 
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Hello,

You have nto installed the driver correctly. That ! means that there is no working driver installed.

Cheers,
Mak
 
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I found the original netgear drivers floppy and here is what it says to do:

NETGEAR FA311/FA312 PCI Card
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Driver Installation for Microsoft Windows 2000/ME
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Getting Started
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The Windows 2000/ME installation CD is needed to complete this
installation.

The following example illustrates the installation of the FA312 adapter
card. The installation for the FA311 adapter card is exactly the same.
It is recommended that you complete the Windows 2000/ME installation prior
to inserting the adapter card into the system.

Insllation procedure
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1. Turn off your computer and plug the NETGEAR FA312 adapter into an
available PCI slot in your computer.

2. Turn on the power of your computer to boot up the system.

The Win2000/ME system will find the hardware and start prompting you
for the proper device driver.

3. Click on Next in the first Found New Hardware Wizard window.

The next Found New Hardware Wizard window pops up with a question
mark because Windows 2000/ME is not able to find a device driver that
matches the adapter card.

4. Select the "Search for a suitable diver for my device (recommended)
radio button and click on Next.

5. Insert the Drivers and Diagnostics disk into the floppy drive.
Select only "Floppy disk drives" option and click on Next.

Windows 2000/ME will indicate that a driver for the device has been
found. A floppy disk icon indicates that "a:\netfa31x.inf" is
where it is able to locate the device driver.

6. Click on Next.

A Digital Signature Not Found window pops up indicating that a
Microsoft digital signature does not exist.


7. Click on "Next" when "Digital Signature Not Found" window to
continue with the installation.

Windows 2000/ME starts copying files into the system.

8. Click on Finish to complete the installation.

Windows 2000/ME is ready to network afterwards. It is not necessary
to reboot the system to start networking. You can now remove the
Driver and Diagnostics disk.

Additional Information
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To futher customize the system, you can click on My Network Places at
the desktop. Examples of parameters that you can change are computer
and workgroup names, IP addresses, and additional network services.

Do you thunk I should do what it says and physically take the card out and put it back in a follow these directions? What do you all think?
 
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Hello,

Doing that will not get you any closer to a resolution. User Driver Cleaner Pro, if it will work on Windows 2000, to remove any and all drivers. then reinstall. Taking the card out and reinstalling it will only give you another install of the driver which you already have installed. Causing even more conflict.

Either that or go into the Device Manager and force install the drivers. By that i mean lead the Wizard directly to the CD.

Cheers,
Mak
 
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