No network driver under WinXP

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blakk
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No network driver under WinXP

Post by blakk »

I just installed WinXP SP2 as guest system on Windows 7 as host. I installed the guest additions and everything works fine except: there are no network drivers. I don't know why but they are just not there and therefore I have not network connection.

What can I do or what did I wrong?
Sasquatch
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Re: No network driver under WinXP

Post by Sasquatch »

If you changed the default interface emulated type, then you need to manually install the driver. If you didn't, then you have a modified XP, as the default pcnet adapter driver is shipped with XP. We don't support modified XP versions.
Btw, you should have gone with SP3 in it, SP2 is old.
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stefan.becker
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Re: No network driver under WinXP

Post by stefan.becker »

Set it to Intel e 1000 and install drivers from intel homepage.
blakk
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Re: No network driver under WinXP

Post by blakk »

I just tried the intel driver thing and it works now. Danke, Stefan.
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