Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Mellanox ConnectX-5 Virtual Adapter how to download and install the driver

Mellanox ConnectX-5 Virtual Adapter is a Network Adapters device. This driver was developed by Mellanox Technologies Ltd.. PCI/VEN_15B3&DEV_1018 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Mellanox ConnectX-5 Virtual Adapter driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Mellanox ConnectX-5 Virtual Adapter driver. The archive contains version 2.0.19824.0 dated 2018-07-02 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by Mellanox Technologies Ltd..
Size of this driver: 1022504 bytes (998.54 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.4 stars out of 75325 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Using DriverMax to install Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Mellanox ConnectX-5 Virtual Adapter driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you find the Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Mellanox ConnectX-5 Virtual Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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