without having to move the card to another PCI slot.
I am also looking into this while I'm updating the driver for the 2007 version.
To sum it all up for now:
1.) Try the 2006+ driver first. If it doesnt't work, take 2004 from our site (support section)
2.) You can try the below described fix, but it involves working with registry and is not for the faint hearted.
3.) We are finally working on driver for 2007+ so expect a new driver these days (this time for real)., that is if
Bert the forum spammer lets us use the forum. Otherwise we'll close the forum and you can all thank him.
Hi Marko!
I have a little fix for people having trouble with the PCI Max card being detected as a network card in Windows.
It seems that once this happens, Windows refuses to re-check the PNP info for the card, and instead refers to its own registry settings from the first erroneous detection. This is what necessitates moving the card from slot to slot.
The solution is simply to delete the bad entry, and restart or rescan for hardware changes.
On my machine, it came up with the following registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_6159&DEV_0001&SUBSYS_00010001&REV_00
As you can see, the Vendor ID comes up as "6159" which is invalid. The PCI Max I received, when correctly detected, comes up as VEN_E159 (Tiger Jet Network). I don't know why the error occurs, but the solution is to simply delete the bad key, rather than move the card to a new slot.
However, this requires the user to find the key using regedit.exe, and change the permissions to allow "Everyone" to delete it.
It can then be removed manually or scripted.
I used regedit scripted from a command file containing just one line to invoke regedit and open a .key file:
regedit /S removeerroneouspci.key
The file "removeerroneouspci.key" has just two lines:
REGEDIT4
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_6159&DEV_0001&SUBSYS_00010001&REV_00]
It should be possible to change permissions and delete the key using Microsoft's newer "regini.exe", but I am not familiar with the syntax, and regini is more platform dependent and must be downloaded in a toolkit from Microsoft by the user.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Steve, Canada