ML115 G5 Vista Drivers

[Steve Goodwin_1]

For various reasons, I need to put Vista (Ultimate 32bit) onto this server.
I found nVidia Vista drivers and that has sorted everything except the Broadcom LAN interface.
I found drivers on their website but they seem not to install.
Any pointers for Vista LAN drivers??

Thanks
Steve

[Anonymous]

Hi Steve,

same issue here. Have you been able to resolve this?
thanks, Georg

[Steve Goodwin_1]

No. Gave up and put Win Server 2008 on it instead which was fine!
Steve

[u84823]

How about running ESXi on the server and installing Vista as a VM?

[Steve Goodwin_1]

Did try that and Vista ran ok and could be accessed remotely but I needed to run it as a local session through the attached monitor and seemed unable to do that.
To be honest, this was about 3 months ago and I can't remember the details of why it didn't do what I wanted :-)
Anyway, Server 2008 solved the problem!
S

[Anonymous]

Just wanted to add the generic driver that comes with Vista works (broadcom 5721 or so). in essence, everything works fine.