Unrecognized Ethernet Controller in Windows Vista

[dvijay]

Hi,

I am new to this. I installed Parallels yesterday on a MacBook Pro 2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo with Max OS X 10.5.3 with Windows Vista Ultimate as a guest OS.

I can't get networking to work on Vista.

In Parallels, I have the network adapter set to 'Shared Networking'.

I do see the Parallels-Guest and Parallels NAT in "System Preferences-Network" with both configured to use DHCP.

In Windows Vista, I don't see any network adapter. In Device Manager, I see that the device drivers for the Ethernet Controller have not been installed. Not sure why.

Any suggestions? This may have been discussed in the past, but I couldn't find anything searching the forums.

Thanks in advance.

 

[dvijay]

Realtek

A followup to my earlier post.

In the Parallels Configuration Editor - Network Adapter, I see Adapter Type set to Realtek 8029 (AS). Perhaps Vista has no drivers for this?

 

[John@Parallels]

Yes, you need to install them from vmtools .iso manually, click install Parallels Tools, but do not.
Navigate iso mounted in Vm, and you will found network driver

 

[dvijay]

Hi John,

I was able to get it working by installing an XP driver for realtek on the Vista VM.

Thanks