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Hallo!

I spended several hours with integrating the NIC drivers of a DELL Optiplex 755 into a WindowsXP installation. The network adapter is listed as "Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection". I can't believe to be the only one having problems doing this.

What I tried, but didn't work:

1. Downloading the official driver R162323
2. Extracting it to the drivers/preferred folder
3. Deleting all folders in there except the WinXP_2K folder
4. chown -r opsiconfd:pcpatch of the drivers folder
5. Creating the driver links
6. Testing with show_drivers --> everything seems to be ok

I expected this is the way it should work. Where is my mistake?

What I tried and didn't work, too:

1. Extracting the drivers from an installed system with DoubleDriver
2. Copying it to the drivers/preferred folder
3. chown -r opsiconfd:pcpatch of the drivers folder
4. Creating the driver links
5. Testing with show_drivers

This seems to be ok, but still some files are missing.

How I got this working:

I added the missing files from the official drivers. The missing files are the files listed in the inf file created by DoubleDriver in the section [CoInstaller_CopyFiles]: NicInstE.dll, e1000msg.dll, NicEtCoE.dll
Another way: Replacing the official inf files with the inf file which was created by DoubleDriver.

I think there must to be an easier way to get this driver working, mustn't it? Please, tell me what you did to integrate this driver.

Greetings, Gernot

Hello,
I used the driverpacks mentioned in the handbook, didn't have any problems. I only had to add drivers for the smartcard-keyboard and the hdaudio-device.
Maybe it helps to chmod ug+rw on the files? It shouldn't be necessary...