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Topic: Installing LAN Driver Windows XP

I have downloaded the LAN driver packs as well as DriverPacks-base.
How do I simply install LAN driver directly. I tried install driver in add hardware but it does´nt find the driver even when telling it where to look.
I don´t know what LAN device I have so I thought this would find out and install !

Thanks for your help..

Last edited by trupillo (2008-03-14 03:52:41)

  • JakeLD
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Re: Installing LAN Driver Windows XP

There is no easy way to that. However, you can run the tool save_hwids.exe located in my sig, It will give you a list of all devices installed on your PC with their unique IDs number. Then you must find the ID of your network card. Here what the list looks like on my PC:

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PCI Devices
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PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_2000&SUBSYS_20001022&REV_10\3&61AAA01&0&88 : VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter
PCI\VEN_104B&DEV_1040&SUBSYS_1040104B&REV_01\3&61AAA01&0&80 : VMware SCSI Controller
PCI\VEN_15AD&DEV_0405&SUBSYS_040515AD&REV_00\3&61AAA01&0&78 : VMware SVGA II
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_7110&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_08\3&61AAA01&0&38 : Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA mode)
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_7111&SUBSYS_197615AD&REV_01\3&61AAA01&0&39 : Intel(R) 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_7112&SUBSYS_197615AD&REV_00\3&61AAA01&0&3A : Intel(R) 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_7190&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_01\3&61AAA01&0&00 : Intel 82443BX Pentium(R) II Processor to PCI Bridge
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_7191&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_01\3&61AAA01&0&08 : Intel 82443BX Pentium(R) II Processor to AGP Controller
8 matching device(s) found.

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USB Devices
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USB\ROOT_HUB\4&3788CC09&0                                   : USB Root Hub
1 matching device(s) found.

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Input Devices
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No matching devices found.

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ACPI Devices
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ACPI\ACPI0003\1                                             : Microsoft AC Adapter
ACPI\FIXEDBUTTON\2&DABA3FF&0                                : ACPI Fixed Feature Button
ACPI\GENUINEINTEL_-_X86_FAMILY_15_MODEL_4\_0                : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
ACPI\PNP0001\4&5289E18&0                                    : EISA programmable interrupt controller
ACPI\PNP0100\4&5289E18&0                                    : System timer
ACPI\PNP0200\4&5289E18&0                                    : Direct memory access controller
ACPI\PNP0303\4&5289E18&0                                    : Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
ACPI\PNP0400\5&324D5432&0                                   : Printer Port (LPT1)
ACPI\PNP0501\1                                              : Communications Port (COM1)
ACPI\PNP0501\2                                              : Communications Port (COM2)
ACPI\PNP0700\5&324D5432&0                                   : Standard floppy disk controller
ACPI\PNP0800\4&5289E18&0                                    : System speaker
ACPI\PNP0A03\2&DABA3FF&0                                    : PCI bus
ACPI\PNP0A05\4&5289E18&0                                    : Generic Bus
ACPI\PNP0B00\4&5289E18&0                                    : System CMOS/real time clock
ACPI\PNP0C02\1F                                             : Motherboard resources
ACPI\PNP0F13\4&5289E18&0                                    : VMware Pointing Device
ACPI_HAL\PNP0C08\0                                          : Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
ROOT\ACPI_HAL\0000                                          : ACPI Uniprocessor PC
19 matching device(s) found.

So what you need to find is the ID of the network card which is most likely in PCI section since it's not a USB card. Now you must look for the words "Lan, Net, Network" or companies that make those devices, they are not too many of them. In my case this the line I need:

PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_2000&SUBSYS_20001022&REV_10\3&61AAA01&0&88 : VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter

I can easely identify it because the word "Net" stands for network card obviously.

So now you extract the DP Lan in a folder and run a search on the folder itself and make sure you select the option to search in sub folders. In the second search field (search for a word or phrase in the file) you copy the HWID (only the part in bold) and run the search. It will finds INF file(s) containing the HWID of your card with their locations. So now you know the exact path of the matching driver(s) for your card and you can specify it when you update the driver. If it finds nothing, it simply means that the driver is not in the pack or it's using a generic HWID which will look like this PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_2000 so you can refine your search and repeat the same steps.

Hope it helps.

Last edited by JakeLD (2008-03-14 05:25:06)

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  • Registered: 2008-03-14
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Re: Installing LAN Driver Windows XP

Thank you very much...will give it a try