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CShark / usb_dmx

A simple four port USB-DMX ArtNET-Node
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The network card cannot be recognized and used in Windows 10 and Windows 7 systems #10

Open 517002650 opened 1 month ago

517002650 commented 1 month ago

Is there a way to use it on Windows 10 and Windows 7 systems?

CShark commented 1 month ago

The device uses the NCM-Protocol for USB, which is only natively supported since Win11. Before that, you had to use the RNDIS-Protocol. Aparently the latest Windows 10 patches ship with the driver, but disable it by default. I found the following steps to enable the driver manually:

  1. Find the NCM interface device in Device Manager under "Other devices" (it goes under the name "LwIP gateway"
  2. Browse the computer for driver software
  3. Pick from available driver list
  4. Select "Network adapters" as device type
  5. Select "MSFT" manufacturer (it's code for Microsoft), "UsbNcm Host Device" model
  6. Profit

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The device name should probably be something like 'ArtNet' or similar, I guess, but I don't have a PC to test those steps.

Probably no way to get NCM working on Win7 though.