Intel 9 series chipset driver problem

hello
i know this is intel driver's problem, but as a manufacturer who use intel products especially chipset, can anyone tell intel that their "9 series" chipset driver is totally crap, absurd and so on? for those who are using this series of chipset, try checking their chipset driver via device manager and click any of "intel 9 series chipset family" driver under system devices or "intel 9 series chipset family usb..." driver under usb controllers and you can find that its driver provider are from microsoft and dated 2006. right, it is installed by operating system and chipset installer utility did nothing.
until intel knows about this thinsg, those who using 9 series chipset are using drivers from microsoft.

Hi,
Do you actually have any problems? Because Quote
chipset driver is totally crap, absurd and so on?
doesn't explain anything.
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The fact they're dated 2006 doesn't mean anything. As long as thing is working fine, there's no need of updating. Possibly you're one out of xxx people that has some problems with it, but Intel (nor MSI, M$ and so on) couldn't really catch the issue since millions of tests before release is impossible.

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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:04:43 +0000, Turrekens Jurgen wrote:
> I'm trying to get Zfd 4.01 ir5 to work on the abovementioned board,
> which has an internel intel(r) 82562G integrated adapter, which is not
> recognized by the kernel.
>
> ifconfig gives nothing back, i've tried insmod -f e100 / e1000 (with paths),
> but this gives back "init_module: no such device".
>
> intel however, distributes packages containing only the e1000.ko file,
> but this is only usable on newer (2.6) kernels.
>
> Kernel version we're using is 2.4.32-pre3.
>
> Does anybody know which module is needed for this adapter?
>
> ir7 is (currently) not an option, since we're in a bit of a version
> freeze for Zfd at the moment (I'm calling it "being scared of change").
>
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