Problems With Network Card

[Zwitter]

Good day!

First sorry for my english and second if topic like mine was created earlier

I am making a project in college. I am making video of windows server 2008 learning and having problems with my network card. My Windows server 2008 is virtualized on VMware Workstation v5. My hardware is:
mainboard an35n ultra- http://www.shuttle.eu/_archive/older/en/an35n_faq.htm

RAM 1.5 GB
Processor AMD Athlon 2000+
Video Nvidia Geforce 5200
And my virtualized server does not recognize my integrated network card. So i tried to find Vista driver for it (server 2008 and vista is on the same platform, right?), that doesn't work. So i bought a PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter- D-Link DFE- 520TX, thought that will work and i will have network, but again- fail
I tried to install it manualy, the system does it, but i get code 31, that it doesn't have proper driver. Installing from cd, did not help.
So i'm asking:
* My mainboard is to old, and i can forget about network on my virtualized system?
* I have to do some configuring in VMware?
* Why server doesn't found my PCI network card automaticly?
* Is there a way to install Active Directory without network adapter?
For first time, that will be enough.

Thank you for help!

 

[RSchwarz]

This is not a problem with your server install. It is a problem with the drivers that vmware installs. Make sure vmware tools are installed. If they are check that you have network config set to pass through and not bridged.

 

[Zwitter]

Thanks for advice
So do you say that i have to use NAT?

 

[RSchwarz]

Yes use NAT option.

 

[Zwitter]

So, this is my configuration



This is my network config dialog




This i get when install lan driver manualy



And i have to do here some changes or not (Virtual machine Edit-> Virtual network settings)?



p.s. i stoll dont have any network

 

[RSchwarz]

For whate ever reason vmware is not creating the network bridge. Do you have vmware tools installed on the host?

 

[Zwitter]

Yes i hade installed them, but now it doesn't matter. I have found this program VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/. It is very simple to use, and do not need any configuration, it works for me, and finally i have network on my virtual server
Thans for help and advices