Supported Hardware/Network cards
Please update this page with the status of each NIC that is tested. AS YOU CAN SEE, ITS LISTED ALPHABETICALLY, SO PLEASE COMPLY TO THIS ORDER.
Possible statuses
| Status | Description |
|---|---|
| Works | Works without any major problems |
| Not tested | No test has been performed. |
| Failed | Fails to work or crashes ROS |
Tested NICs
| NIC | Chipset | Status | Comments | Tester |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3COM 3C905B-TX-NM | lucent/3com Parallel tasking II Performance 40-0483 | Works | Rev.40495. See bug 2 below, you need to use expand.exe on EL90XBC5.SY_ and copy it to %windir%\system32\drivers. Bug was 2634 | gabriel_it |
| 3COM 3C905B-TX-M | 3com 920-ST06 | Works | Tested with Rev. 41235. Works using driver from XP. | Haos |
| Accton EN1207B-TX | accton DECchip 21143 | Works | Tested with Rev. 41235 using XP native driver. | Haos |
| ACCTON EN1207D | accton MPX EN5038A1 | Failed | Tested with rev.40495. It installs but doesn't work. See bug 3796 (see bug 1 below). | gabriel_it |
| ADMtek AN983B | ADMTek AN983B | Works | Rev.40588. It installs and works on real hardware, using Windows 2000 drivers. | Haos |
| AMD PCnet™-PRO | AMD Am79C976 | Works | Works using our pcnet driver | Unknown |
| AMD PCnet™-FAST III | AMD Am79C973/Am79C975 | Works | Works using our pcnet driver | Unknown |
| AMD PCnet™-FAST+ | AMD Am79C972 | Works | Works using our pcnet driver | Unknown |
| Broadcom 440x 10/100 | Works | Working using official XP drivers on r41291 | aicom | |
| Compex ReadyLINK RL100-TX/PCI | Compex RL2000-9881 | Failed | Compex own driver is too old, NDIS 3.0, see bug.4530 | Haos |
| Compex ReadyLINK RL2000-PCI | Compex RL2000-9881 | Works | Works, use Winbond W89C940 drivers, as Compex own ones have inf file way too old. | Haos |
| D-Link DFE-528TX | Realtek RTL8139 | Failed | Haos | |
| D-Link DFE-530TX | Works | Working with builds >= r40673 | Unknown | |
| Davicom DM9102AF | Works | Rev.40821. Used Win2k drivers downloaded from vendor's site: link to site. | Unknown | |
| HP J2585B 10/100VG | unknown? | Works | Rev.40487. Driver installs and works on real hardware. | Unknown |
| Intel PRO/100 | Works | Working on real hardware using r41134 (XP driver files need to be replaced with 2k driver files) | aicom | |
| Intel PRO/1000 | unknown? | Works | Works with builds >= r40673 (XP driver files need to be replaced with 2k driver files) | aicom |
| Linksys LNE100TX | Linksys LNE100TX | Works | Works with builds >= r40475 using official Windows 2000 drivers | aicom |
| MSI PC60G-F Wireless Germany MSI | Atheros AR5001 | Works | It installs and works using Windows XP/2000 driver. But ReactOS lacks wireless support so the card is not really usable. | Netzimme |
| NE2000-compatible cards | novell NE2000 | Works | Works using our ne2000 driver | Unknown |
| QEMU Realtek 8139 | QEMU RTL8139 QEMU | Works | Works with builds >= r40673 using Windows 2000 drivers | aicom |
| Pluscom NGP-RTL8169 | Realtec RTL8169 | Failed | Install fails. | Unknown |
| Realtek 8139 | Realtek RTL8139 | Failed | Using Windows 2000 drivers and rev40964 still doesn't work (see bug 2 below) | Ey3 |
| Realtek RTL8168C/8111C PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC | Realtek RTL8168C/8111C | Failed | Rev.40825. It installs but doesn't work using Windows 2000 drivers (see bug 2 below). | LinoSP |
| VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet [VIA VT823x] | VIA VT823x | Works | Rev.40825. It installs and works on real hardware, using x86 Windows XP drivers. Others VIA Rhine Family Fast Ethernet might work.VIA Rhine Family Driver. | LinoSP |
Known bugs
1. NdisMRegisterInterrupt gets called with InterruptVector == 0 and InterruptLevel == 0 which causes it to fail.
2. Some INF files have both Windows 2000 and XP sections, with separate drivers for both. When trying to install Win2k driver version, ReactOS is being detected as XP, thus XP driver is attempted to be installed, even though its driver file may be missing in Win2k driver directory. As ReactOS doesn't fail when copying non existent files, successful installation is reported, alas driver file is not copied to system32\driver directory. This will cause "Successful install, please restart" window to appear at every boot.
