Hopefully this will help anyone who runs into the same problem. The internet connection came up within seconds and all is still working well on the machine after an hour or so of Internet downloads and installation. This file was burned to CD, the CD was put in the server, and I double-clicked, selected the option for 'install drivers' and it worked perfectly. Windows XP Intel NIC Network Drivers Gigabit Installation on PowerEdge 750 After installing Windows XP, an unsupported and not guaranteed OS on this PowerEdge 750 server, the network drivers were still showing as unknown. Fedora cannot ship windows virtio drivers because they cannot be built automatically as part of fedora s build system, the only way to build windows virtio drivers is on a machine running windows.

The exact link to download this package directly from the Intel website is The first of these I downloaded and it gave an error, but the second one, with a description that it was for 32BIT machines did the trick. I visited Intel's website and was able to find two types of drivers that matched the devices in the system by looking up its chip ID as I stated above.

After a converstation with a Dell support representative, and after reviewing this forum and the technical specs and information about this machine, I was able to determine that the network devices in the machine were two Intel Kenai 2 Gigabit NICs with a chip ID of 82547GI.Īlthough the dell phone representative pointed me to the newest drivers for this machine on the Dell website (they were for Windows Server 2000 or 2003 I think) and although we figured they might work, they ended us back at the same point that the on-CD drivers had already. After installing Windows XP, an unsupported and not guaranteed OS on this PowerEdge 750 server, the network drivers were still showing as 'unknown.' Our attempts to install the drivers from the associated CDs that came with the server turned up an annoying error asking for a '.sys' file that we did not have and could not locate on the machine or on the CD.

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