Add NE 2000 driver for the Windows 2003 R2 box

[vcpguy]

Guys, what do I need to do to make Windows 2003 R2 to work with NE 2000 drivers?

For some readon, the AMD driver is not working on the windows 2003 box.

Any suggestions are most welcome

Thanks

[weinstein5]

Do you have vmware tools installed? You will need to make sure vmware tools is installed to make sure so that the approriate driver is load to use a virtual NIC other than vlance - which is recognized as an AMD PCNET 32 bit ethernet controller by a plug and play O/S like windows 2003 - once it is installed the virtual NIC will morph to FLex Network which is a high performance virtual NIC the only other option I believe is a virtualized Intel e1000 card and this is done by modifying the VMX file for the VM -

[vcpguy]

I am breaking my head with this, I want to setup the network with this VM and it is not working.

The OS is - Windows 2003 64 bit R2.

Do, you have any idea, why am I am not able to install this ?

Thanks

[weinstein5]

Have you taken at the guest o/s guide? -

[vcpguy]

Thanks for the link. For some reason, windows 2003 will not install the network card. I dont know what steps, i have done wrong? I have tried installing Vmware tool couple of times, it still does not work.

Thanks

[notorious_bdg]

The flexible NIC type will not work with Windows x64. Changing the NIC to e1000, and you should be good to go.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Moved to VI: Virtual Machine and GUest OS forum.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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