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  • 1.  Windows 2000 Ethernet Controller - Driver

    Posted Apr 16, 2010 01:59 PM

    I have installed windows 200 server on to seperate vSphere deployments and on both installations there is a problem with the Network Card's device drivers.

    VMware tools is installed and this is a new VM Host. We are running the very latest build.

    Tried installing the VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter and VMware PCI Ethernet Adapter drivers that are located under C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware%20Tools/Drivers/vmxnet/, but with no luck. Windows complains of incompatibility.

    Has anyone else experienced this and possibly has a solution.

    I have tried both the Flexible and E1000, network cards, these are the only 2 options available for Windows 2000. VMNet2,etc are supported by different OS not Windows 2000.

    this would be helpful



  • 2.  RE: Windows 2000 Ethernet Controller - Driver

    Posted Apr 16, 2010 04:20 PM

    You shouldn't need any drivers for the E1000 as that is likely built into Windows, even back as far as Windows 2000.

    What error message are you getting? Is it just classifying it as an unknown device?



  • 3.  RE: Windows 2000 Ethernet Controller - Driver

    Posted Apr 16, 2010 05:43 PM

    It's listed as an ethernet controller. All the other device drivers got installed when installing vm-tools but not this

    Sent from my Windows Mobile® phone.



  • 4.  RE: Windows 2000 Ethernet Controller - Driver

    Posted Apr 16, 2010 06:23 PM

    And it's showing up as not having a driver installed? I'm surprised to hear that the E1000 driver doesn't work as Windows should have a driver for that by default.



  • 5.  RE: Windows 2000 Ethernet Controller - Driver

    Posted Apr 18, 2013 06:06 AM

    I have same problem in ESXi 5.1

    The vmware tools is installed but the e1000 ethernet controller is "unknown device" in device manager.

    Did you find the solution?



  • 6.  RE: Windows 2000 Ethernet Controller - Driver

    Posted Apr 18, 2013 07:07 AM

    I searched and found that the E1000 is the "Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet NIC". This NIC can also appear under the alternative name “Intel PRO/1000 MT Network Connection”.

    I downloaded the driver for windows 2000 from the intel.com, and after installation the problem fixed.



  • 7.  RE: Windows 2000 Ethernet Controller - Driver

    Posted Jul 10, 2014 10:56 AM

    Good shout. Allowed me to recover a legacy server from a .tib image ( acronis) as VMware tools in ESXi 5.1 do not appear to  install an E1000 driver.



  • 8.  RE: Windows 2000 Ethernet Controller - Driver

    Posted Mar 17, 2015 02:49 PM

    I found the drivers in https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/17640/Network-Adapter-Drivers-for-Windows-2000-Final-Release

    However, I did have to point the New Hardware Wizard at the %temp% folder halfway through running the PRO2K.exe.