Clean install of Vista on 2010 Mini has no sound or ethernet

I've installed Vista (32 bit) and Office 2007 on a Mac Mini 2010 using Bootcamp. Although Wifi works and connects to my router ethernet doesn't. I noticed it didn't during the install. Have tried various combinations, including using another Mac to share it's wifi connection via ethernet and all just show that although Vista thinks the ethernet is healthy it doesn't connect. Boot up in Snow Leopard and all is good.
As for the sound Device Manager shows a problem with the Cirrus driver. I've tried uninstalling and letting Vista install it's own drivers (no luck) and reinstalling the bootcamp drivers to no avail.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Went after an updated ethernet driver at the Broadcom site and got hijacked by a program called Driver Detective which scans the system and wants to take over and wants you to register. Maybe it would work but I'm suspicious. More careful browsing of the Broadcom site located some drivers which I downloaded and installed. Worked!, for a little while and will work again, for a little while. That's better than before when it didn't work at all.
At least that show's it's definitely a driver issue so I'm happy enough to tag this as answered and give up for a while.

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