CCIE Lab Preparation using GNS3 - QUAD Card Issue

Hi,

I don't know if I should be asking this question on this forum but I really
need some help. In the process of preparing for the lab, I am setting up one
at my home. I read many forums and decided to go with 4 real switches while
routers will be emulated on the GNS3 mainly due to cost. To do that I bought
3 D-Link DFE-580TX Quad NICs to have a total of 12 ethernet ports on the PC
which can be used to connect the emulated router ports to the 4 switches.

Now the issue is that I have set up a PC with 8 GB RAM which means that I
have to use 64bit OS. I installed Windows 7 64 bit edition but the card is
not supported on it, however it works on Ubuntu but I am not comfortable
with that OS.

I was wondering if anybody could help me in getting the 64bit drivers for
the mentioned card. I have tried a lot but couldn't find it on internet.

Regards,
Malik

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Received on Mon Dec 13 2010 - 03:01:12 ART