Re: Lan drivers for P4B533-V

Walter_S wrote:
Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Walter_S wrote:
I am making a slipstream XP Pro + SP2 + latest hot fixes .iso file and
CD-ROM to work with my four year old P4B533-V motherboard. The last
time I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled windows about three years
ago (the OS is acting real tired these days) I remember having some
confusion about what to install and when, and I seem to remember that
I had to install the LAN driver that came on the CD with the
motherboard before I could proceed with getting Windows to connect up
to the internet. In fact I may have had to install that even before
running the XP installation. I can't remember. (I also remember
having a lot confusion installing XP because some junk was stuck in
the Master Boot Record sector or something and I had to clean that
first.)

The program nLite that I am using to make the slipstream has an option
to include drivers. What files should I put on the slipstream disk to
make it work with this old, but trusty, motherboard? I have an
nVidia 7600 GTS graphics card, a bunch of USB devices like joystick,
steering wheel, web cam, cell phone cable, ham radio cable, scanner,
printer, etc but I don't think I need those drivers on the slipstream
installation. I can get those devices up and running as I reinstall
the apps that use those programs. But I do want to make sure that I
have the important drivers on the slipstream disk to make the OS
installation go smoothly.

Walter
I see one LAN driver file on here.
http://support.asus.com.tw/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

This is the file. It supports Win95 through WinXP.
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/lan/intelan/lan_i61.zip

The downloadfinder.intel.com site is another place to look for
drivers, but they don't make the job an easy one.

Paul

Thanks for wading through the muck at the Asus site.

The thing is that I don't really understand what to do with the Lan
driver file(s) for a slipstream disk. My memory from a few years ago
was that after I had installed XP I had to take the XP CD out of the
drive and then put in the disk that came with the motherboard and then
find on the CD's menu system a menu choice that looked sort of like
something that would install device drivers that I would need to get
LAN connectivity.

How this relates to a slipstream disk I don't know, because I'm
looking at the zip file you linked and it has 130 files in it. Which
ones would I put on the slipstream disk? (in fact after I wrote the
preceding I browsed those files again and it looks to me like they are
for Linux.)

Walter

I was looking at Nlite the other day, and they do have a few pages
that describes the procedure. I think for drivers, they are looking for an
INF and associated files.

http://www.nliteos.com/guide/part2.html

"- Click on the 'insert' tab to search for drivers to install, make sure
that you open .inf files only
- If your drivers are only in the .exe format you can sometimes extract
them with Winzip, Powerarchiver, Winrar ..."

You can use a program like Everest to list devices. From a previous post of
mine, somehow I figured out the board uses a separate PHY, which means the
MAC is inside an existing chip. In this case, it looks like the Southbridge
has the MAC for the Ethernet, and so I looked up the PCI\VEN for ICH4 LAN,
to find the number to use. That takes me to net55a9x.inf and associated files
and registry changes. At the very least, I can see the five files in the list,
as candidates for inclusion by Nlite. I expect, you point Nlite at the INF,
and Nlite parses what is in there, to figure out what other stuff to grab
from the directory or directory tree. If that is not the case, then you'll
have to read the net55a9x.inf file yourself, and "pretend to be an installer".

82562ET PHY, ICH4 Kinerreth LOM PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_103A is the MAC -->

net55a9x.inf

D110K.ndi --> E100B.ndi.copyfiles
8255indi.dll,,,2
e100bnt5.sys,,,2
WOL558.vxd,,,2
8255xDel.exe,,,2
net82557.din,,,2

If you figure out what it actually does, please post back with the details.
I'm not ready for Nlite yet, because it uses .NET 2.0, and I've resisted all
this time, on the misguided assumption the .NET upgrade from Microsoft would
eat up more of my precious system RAM. My ATI drivers seem to use some .NET
stuff, and I don't know if the .NET libraries are linked in selectively
at runtime, or the whole thing is just sucked into RAM.

Paul
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