Originally Posted by
PTravel
For what it's worth, I returned home to spend an hour on the phone with a Sony tech who, unlike the other Sony tech's I've spoken with, seemed to know his stuff. We finally concluded that it's a Vista problem, Sony can't do anything and I simply can't use that NIC on this machine until Microsoft comes up with a driver fix.
Out of curiosity, what was the problem? If your NIC shipped with an in-box driver, it should have been pretty well tested and should work. If the drivers were written by somebody else, it is up to them to fix the driver.