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> "Grand_Poobah" <whatever@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eZf6JLrbJHA.1284@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Next step: email NVIDIA tech support and see if there are any updated
>> drivers higher than 67.7.6.1 for my network adapter. Their web site
>> is set up totally for video drivers and doesn't show any network
>> adapters in their product list (strange?).
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> Not at all. AFAIK NVIDIA make graphics cards, not Network adapters.
> That's what I though also Gordon but Device Manager doggedly insists
that my two adapters are:
Atheros AR5009 802.11a/g/n WiFi Adapter
NVIDIAnForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Networking Controller
I cannot find anything anywhere relating to the NVIDIA networking device
other than some Google hits reporting some similar problems as those I
am having. I suppose it is possible that it is 'spoofing' (for lack of
a better word) DM and reporting it is a network controller but why will
it connect to the web then? I think this may have been some sort of
experiment by NVIDIA into the networking arena and the drivers just
don't work right.
The next thing is to try and remove the NVIDIA drivers totally (backing
them up somewhere safe) and see if I can reboot and have Vista assign
different drivers to it.
I do have an NVIDIA GeForce 8200G M video card in the laptop also.
GP