REQUEST: Intel i210-i218 Drivers for XP

[mockingbird]

Aside from the "PRO2Kv3" drivers from the known Windows 2000 afficionado who shall remain nameless but likes to tease his wares without actually providing links for download, does anyone have working XP drivers?  I have the i210-T1, but it doesn't work with his driver (device cannot start).  Blackwingcat writes on his blog the following to someone who complained about it not working on XP:

 

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If you are using the SYS/INF file for Win2000,
please replace it with the one for XP.

The 2000 version does not work if the XP version is left as is, so the NDIS version determination has been changed.
Also, since the Win2000 INF file has deleted the XP items, it may not work as is.

Please check the log directly under the WINDOWS folder to see if the hardware ID and the actual ID are the same (error hints are also there)

 How wonderfully insightful.

Does anyone here have working drivers, and would you please upload it?

Thanks

[mockingbird]

Ok, I found the driver, the filename is i211_217xp.zip

Now I need to see why it doesn't work...  I did do something to the card which I'll reverse to see if that fixes it.

 

EDIT:  Yes!  Driver works.  What I did was solder back on the boot rom...  With this particular NIC, the device ID changes from 1533 to 1531 if you don't have the boot rom.  I can live with the PXE message at boot time.  Yay   No more USB ethernet dongle.  Tested the speed and it is up to par with 1 gigabit.  Fantastic.

Edited July 5, 2023 by mockingbird