[vbox-dev] SVN trunk: Vista has no ethernet driver?

[David L.Pratte]

Install the VirtualBox Guest additions, these include the AMD PCnet
driver required with the default configuration.

2008/8/16, Sander van Leeuwen <Sander.Vanleeuwen at sun.com>:
> This is not a question that belongs on the developer's mailinglist. Use
> the forum in the future.
>
> walt wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I installed Windows Vista in VirtualBox svn/trunk, up to date as
>> of today, Aug 15.  Everything seems perfect except that Vista's
>> device manager says that the ethernet adapter is unknown.
>>
>> Judging by the PCI vendor and subsystem numbers, the emulated NIC
>> is the same 79C973 AMD chip that works perfectly in my XP vbox
>> machines.
>>
>> Any idea why Vista doesn't like this NIC?  Any ideas how to debug
>> this?
>>
>> Thanks for any clues!
>>
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