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I'm looking for a Vista 64-bit compatible network card. I looked at Linksys & Netgear { only ones I have ever used } and neither are Vista 64 compatible. What do you folks recommend I don't want to pay a arm & a leg for it eather. Just need a 10/100 card.

I have been really happy with TrendNet equipment, not expensive and works right out of the box. This one looks like it works with almost everything: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6833156107
Or this one even better with Gigabit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 24f8dce995
You won't even need drivers for these cards, Windows will find the card and install drivers.

Both say Vista, but not 64 bit specifically. But they should work. When you look at the specs, don't confuse where it says "bus = 32 bit PCI 2.2" as not being 64 bit compatable. All PCI buss' are 32 bit regardless if the version of Windows is 32 or 64 bit. Kinda confusing. Chris.

Pretty much what Chris said....

Read the reviews

Other Thoughts: Was furious this didn't have Vista drivers. Went to Linksys site and they said "Not Compatible." Noticed the Realtek chip on the card so I tried the Realtek drivers that came with Vista 64 and VOILA, it worked fine!!!

Greybear wrote:Pretty much what Chris said....

Read the reviews

Other Thoughts: Was furious this didn't have Vista drivers. Went to Linksys site and they said "Not Compatible." Noticed the Realtek chip on the card so I tried the Realtek drivers that came with Vista 64 and VOILA, it worked fine!!!

So the Linksys EG1032 is Vista 64 compatible ??? If so AWESOME I have the Linksys EG1032 Ver. 3 card. So all I need is the realtek drivers ?? Which ones the ones --> Found Here <-- { Auto installation program (support Vista 64 and Vista) (Submission ID: 1310628) }

RubberDuck wrote:

Greybear wrote:Pretty much what Chris said....

Read the reviews

Other Thoughts: Was furious this didn't have Vista drivers. Went to Linksys site and they said "Not Compatible." Noticed the Realtek chip on the card so I tried the Realtek drivers that came with Vista 64 and VOILA, it worked fine!!!

So the Linksys EG1032 is Vista 64 compatible ??? If so AWESOME I have the Linksys EG1032 Ver. 3 card. So all I need is the realtek drivers ?? Which ones the ones --> Found Here <-- { Auto installation program (support Vista 64 and Vista) (Submission ID: 1310628) }

Did you see these Rubberduck? They say they're for the RTL8169/8110 ....

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/sea ... rd=RTL8110

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=4&PFid=4&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#RTL8110S-32/RTL8169S-32/RTL8110SB(L)/RTL8169SB(L)%3Cbr%3ERTL8110SC(L)/RTL8169SC(L)

The ones you linked to say they're for RTL8139/8110. According to the info I found you need to be looking for RTL8169/8110 which is what I posted a link to above.

Are you sure there are no RTL8169/8110 drivers built into Vista 64 already?

Edit:

Went to my Network card in Device Manager and browsed available drivers and I found the RTL8169/8110 drivers already on my system so it looks like you already have them and should be able to force the install. I use RTL8168B/8111 on my Gigabyte board.

Thx guys I found the netcard { was buried in my room } and found the realtek chip on it { should have looked first before asking } sorry and found the right drivers.

Realtek is on alot of cards. My DLinks from a few years ago are Realteks. Odd thing is one got mucked and identified itself as Realtek in the Device manager while the other system still identified it as DLINK 530 or something like that.