Missing device in the Device Manager
Hi,
I recently bought a Kloss I915A - I can't seem to find a decent way to contact their support people, if they even have any. I wrote their little web - form based support but haven't gotten any response. So if someone knows how to contact Trigem/Kloss support that would be heplfull at least.
Anyway...
The immediate problem - My onboard Gigabit LAN controler doesn't show up in the Device Manager (under Network Adapters or Other Devices). The default Adapter was 1394 Net Adapter (seems very odd) and I tried to install my Gigabit driver over it but no dice. I got a connection working by plucking an old PCI ethernet card from a 90's Mac that was sitting around. I've looked through the TIPS thread and cleared the BIOS but nothing... Very confused and frustrated with the Gigabit. Any suggestions?
More info...
I popped all my little goodies in there and installed my very old 1st generation XP. Everything was fine but only 130 gigs (of 250) were recognized (that's normal for the old XP... BIOS saw everything). Initially two Network adapters were listed, "1394 Net Adapter" (seems strange) and the Gigabit ethernet adapter that comes onboard. I installed Kloss' provided LAN driver and setup my connection. I poked around and discovered the sp1-a update and was only then able to do the full SP1 and friends upgrade. I reinstalled XP on a small partition and then repeated the process of connecting and upgrading the XP service packs. Everything was golden, but the next day , the Gigabit inexplicably disappeared from my "Network Connections"... after clicking away I got a message that there was a TCP/IP setup conflict with the 1394 and that the Gigabit ethernet was not "physically" in the computer. I tried a lot of crap and screwed some stuff up. yesterday I brought in another CD drive (also 90's vintage) and reinstalled XP after a few weeks of the blue stop screen. Everything was okay again except there is still no Ethernet option in the Other Devices listing of the Device Manager where it should be. I just have the default 1394 Net Adapter, the old PCI ethernet card I dropped in, and if I "show hidden" then I get WAN minniport(IP), WAN Miniport (IP) - Packet Schedule Miniport, WAN Miniport (L2TP), WAN Miniport (PPPOE) and WAN Miniport (PPTP).
Thanks...
