Broadcom NetXtremeII Ndis 6.0 not loaded
Hello,i have a problem with my network card Broadcom NetXtremm II on IBM x3650 server with Windows 2008. I have upgrade the driver but now windows 2008 Std x64 load NDIS 5.0 and not NDIS 6.0.have you ever have this problem ?Have you a solution to use NDIS 6.0 because now i can't Tema the network Card with BACS.ThanksIT
December 8th, 2008 4:05pm
HI Eric,Good day...by default the ndis.sys which gets loaded is version 6 . Can you please confirm these 2 files a) c:\winnt\system32\drivers\ndis.sys versionb) the inf file related to the ndis in which check the version Also Please contact the broadcom vendor if they have released a filter driver for their network card.sainath
Windows Driver Development
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December 14th, 2008 4:15pm
Hi Eric,i was making bit of search on broadcom site and please verify the below linkhttp://scour.com/view/result/broadcom%20ndis%206.0/QnJvYWRjb20gQ29ycG9yYXRpb24gLSBEb3dubG9hZCBOZXRYdHJlbWUgSUkgRHJpdmVycw==/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5icm9hZGNvbS5jb20vc3VwcG9ydC9ldGhlcm5ldF9uaWMvbmV0eHRyZW1laWkucGhw/?URL=http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtremeii.phpand also the below information might be useful"Microsoft Windows 2008 Server Support- BACS3 will require .NET to be pre-installed prior to launching the application. TCP/IP Over Ethernet (TOE) and Receive Side Scaling (RSS) have been disabled by default on 5709A1 devices. When hot adding an adapter with BASP6 Jumbo frame is only supported with all members running the same MTU size."sainath
Windows Driver Development
December 14th, 2008 4:33pm


