DELL POWEREDGE 2800 Network Cards

[BootneckIT]

I've just taken over a small development server setup consisting of 3 Dell Servers 2 x 2800 and 1 x 6600. I am using the 6600 as my DC with 2003 Enterprise, one of the 2800 is running Red Hat with an Oracle DB, the other 2800 has 2003 Enterprise on it. My problem is that someone in the past has fitted 2 x Fire Wire cards in the 2800 I have now removed them but I can't get the 2 x Gigabit Ethernet ports on the motherboard to be recognised by Windows. They appear in the BIOS and give me the MAC Addresses etc, but I can't get Windows to recognise them, short of doing a rebuild has anyone got any ideas

 

[technome]

So they are the elcheapo Broadcom interface. Have you removed them from device manager, uninstalled the Broadcom software, and reinstalled them, with the latest drivers off the Dell site ?

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[BootneckIT]

I've now managed to get it sorted by downloading some Intel Drivers from the Dell Web Site, a bit hit and miss as I've no paperwork to tell me what make the built in cards are, but it's working now. Cheers.