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    Gigabit ethernet on my Aspire 7520

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Paul_ZX10, Mar 1, 2008.

  1. Paul_ZX10

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    How can I enable gigabit ethernet on my Aspire 7520 under Vista Ultimate 64? There is no 1000 mbs options in the nforce network interface settings ... I use VMs a lot and transfer them between machines so a gigabit transfer of these large files would be fantastic!
     
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    what vmware are you run the server edtion?

    you need edit you config file so think it intel network card not the vmware amd pcnet 32
     
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    My question was regarding the ethernet drivers I suppose .. I can't get gigabit to work and don't see any options to do with that either although the specs say that it has gigabit!

    I mentioned VM because to synch with my main pc I have to transfer 100GB or so of files across after I have been using the laptop away from base. I have my VM network on its own domain on MS Virtual Server (Domain controller, SQL Server, Web Server, App Server, Mail server and a couple of XP Clients) ..
     
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    what network switch are you useing does you router switch support giga-byte lan? are you gigabyte cat 5e cable at leaest how you you setup laptop to giga-byte switch or router?
     
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    I have a direct ethernet cabled connection to the second card on my PC which will do Gigabit when connected to a mates PC (with the same cable I am using now - though it is Cat 5). There are no routers etc. On my PC there is an option in the advanced confuguration for 1Gbps so the driver supports it .. on my laptop there is no such option and it only goes to 100Mbps so I think that either the card does not do 1Gbps OR the drivers do not support it ...
     
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    What chip is you network card useing? try grab the drivers for the acer euro ftp


    is broadcom bcm network card?
     
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