Good day!
First sorry for my english and second if topic like mine was created earlier :)
I am making a project in college. I am making video of windows server 2008 learning and having problems with my network card. My Windows server 2008 is virtualized on VMware Workstation v5. My hardware is:
mainboard an35n ultra- http://www.shuttle.eu/_archive/older/en/an35n_faq.htm
RAM 1.5 GB
Processor AMD Athlon 2000+
Video Nvidia Geforce 5200
And my virtualized server does not recognize my integrated network card. So i tried to find Vista driver for it (server 2008 and vista is on the same platform, right?), that doesn't work. So i bought a PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter- D-Link DFE- 520TX, thought that will work and i will have network, but again- fail :(
I tried to install it manualy, the system does it, but i get code 31, that it doesn't have proper driver. Installing from cd, did not help.
So i'm asking:
* My mainboard is to old, and i can forget about network on my virtualized system?
* I have to do some configuring in VMware?
* Why server doesn't found my PCI network card automaticly?
* Is there a way to install Active Directory without network adapter?
For first time, that will be enough.
Thank you for help! ;)