3com 3c940 gigabit LAN no longer supported?

I installed RC1 64-bit yesterday on a PC with an Asus K8V Deluxe mobo
that includes a 3com 3c940 network chipset, and ta-da! I no longer have
networking. Sound doesn't work either (I have the same problem on a
laptop) but without networking a computer is pretty useless nowadays.

This seems silly given that this board has been around since the
beginning of AMD64. Also its features are supported by Linux and
FreeBSD 64-bit. Is there a 3rd-party driver available (and would it
work at all because of the silly driver signing requirement)?

So far it seems to me that if Microsoft wants to be the gatekeeper of
device drivers, then they need to devote a hell of a lot more resources
to driver verification & signing than they have so far.


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On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:07:56 +0100, clevershark
<clevershark.2eoedr@no-mx.forums.yourdomain.com.au> wrote:

>I installed RC1 64-bit yesterday on a PC with an Asus K8V Deluxe mobo
>that includes a 3com 3c940 network chipset, and ta-da! I no longer have
>networking. Sound doesn't work either (I have the same problem on a
>laptop) but without networking a computer is pretty useless nowadays.
>
>This seems silly given that this board has been around since the
>beginning of AMD64. Also its features are supported by Linux and
>FreeBSD 64-bit. Is there a 3rd-party driver available (and would it
>work at all because of the silly driver signing requirement)?
>
>So far it seems to me that if Microsoft wants to be the gatekeeper of
>device drivers, then they need to devote a hell of a lot more resources
>to driver verification & signing than they have so far.


Can you obtain the driver and install it? I had to use my driver CD to
install a sound card driver ad everything went fine. Go to the device manager
and select Action > Add Legacy hardware. You are looking for the *.inf file.