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Neil
Flightless Bird
A virus infection has required me to re-install Windows XP onto my ACER 5630
laptop.
I have re-installed all the drivers with the exception of the Ethernet LAN
driver.
It is a Broadcom 5787 Ethernet port, and when I download the drivers form
either the Acer website, or the Broadcom website all I get is a zip file with
the following three files:
b57win32.cat
b57win32.inf
b57win32.sys
as there is no setup.exe type file I tried to install using Device manager,
but it fails to install the driver, even if I point the location for the
driver to the folder where I have extracted the files.
Subsequent checking on the Broadcom website reveals that it's not possible
to install the driver in this way, but doesn't give any clue as to how it
should be done!
If anyone out there has had this problem and solved it you're gonna make a
very frustrated man very happy!
TIA
Neil
laptop.
I have re-installed all the drivers with the exception of the Ethernet LAN
driver.
It is a Broadcom 5787 Ethernet port, and when I download the drivers form
either the Acer website, or the Broadcom website all I get is a zip file with
the following three files:
b57win32.cat
b57win32.inf
b57win32.sys
as there is no setup.exe type file I tried to install using Device manager,
but it fails to install the driver, even if I point the location for the
driver to the folder where I have extracted the files.
Subsequent checking on the Broadcom website reveals that it's not possible
to install the driver in this way, but doesn't give any clue as to how it
should be done!
If anyone out there has had this problem and solved it you're gonna make a
very frustrated man very happy!
TIA
Neil