UD-3000 "Plugable Ethernet" drivers for this device are not installed

Discontinued Products UD-3000
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The system is a Surface Pro running Windows 8 Pro.

  1. Recently I ran Windows Updates, “Install Optional Updates”. One of the optional updates was a DisplayLink driver, unfortunately I can’t provide specifics now, because that update disappeared from my update history at step 4 below.

  2. After this DL update and the following reboot, my “Plugable Ethernet” and “Plugable Audio” now show up as having no drivers installed. See screenshot at http://i.imgur.com/nZImVBv.png or bottom of this post.

  3. I visited this forum and learned that people with the “slow Metro app splash screens” and “unstable gigabit ethernet” issues had solved them with the V7.2 M1 drivers from DIsplayLink. So I downloaded that package (http://goo.gl/UbWF5), installed it, and rebooted.

  4. This seems to have removed the history of the DL driver installed by WU in step 1. It also produces no change - the screenshot given in #2 above is still the same.

  5. If I click “Update Driver” for ethernet or audio devices, no driver is found via the “Search Automatically” path. If I choose “Browse my computer” and "pick from list of devices on my computer) I find no Plugable drivers; I do find a whole bunch of DisplayLink Display Adapters, but no drivers for network or sound. (If this is confusing, see http://i.imgur.com/lUcVRKq.png.)

So, what now? I’d like to get ethernet and audio working via the UD-3000. Thanks for any advice you can provide.

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OK, with more browsing around in this forum, I find that Ellen has written a solution that worked for me.

Running the DisplayLink cleaner, then disconnecting the UD-3000 from my Surface and reinstalling the DisplayLink 7.2 M1 drivers did the trick.

Have to say this was a bit of a pain. Something in the driver installer (and the updater from Windows Updates) probably needs fixing?

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Hi quux,

Thanks for posting your questions and the solution here! Glad to know that the issue is fixed.

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Regards,
Roze