Hey guys just bought a quad port gigabit nic off of ebay and this is the most trouble i've ever had with hardware with windows. Its a rebranded "Intel Pro/1000 VT Quad Port PCI-e" which is rebranded as a dell YT674. I found out that this adapter wouldn't work with my server 2012 r2 install . I chose an intel adapter because i though for sure if my cheap $30 intel adapter i bought off newegg would work with just about anything then so would this. Boy was i wrong. The newest driver dell has is 2012 (for 2008R2) which doesn't work and intel doesn't even have a driver for it. I was quite surprised a driver wasn't bundled with windows.
They only somewhat helpful thing i found was this:
http://danieljloughlin.wordpress.co...-port-server-adapter-and-windows-server-2012/
Which he doesn't tell you "exactly" what driver to use other than the hardware id which isn't that useful. There is a huge list of them which i had to find scouring in the temp files created during the install.
Anyways it looks like it will be resold. Does anyone know of a quad port gigabit nic that won't cost and arm & a leg that you could get for a descent price from somewhere like ebay? Hopefully its HIGHLY supported in case i try to repurpose it for something like linux.
They only somewhat helpful thing i found was this:
http://danieljloughlin.wordpress.co...-port-server-adapter-and-windows-server-2012/
Which he doesn't tell you "exactly" what driver to use other than the hardware id which isn't that useful. There is a huge list of them which i had to find scouring in the temp files created during the install.
Anyways it looks like it will be resold. Does anyone know of a quad port gigabit nic that won't cost and arm & a leg that you could get for a descent price from somewhere like ebay? Hopefully its HIGHLY supported in case i try to repurpose it for something like linux.