Which would be a good NIC to work with Norton Ghost or similar deploym

[evila]

I am confused with all the specs on the NICs out there, all I need is a NIC that would work with Ghost Solution Suit 2.0? Some of the NICs I have either fail on remote reboot or fail to be detected in dos, the results were the same even I fiddle with NDIS2 or package driver.

I'll be deploying Win2k/xp 32-bit/xp 64-bit/ vista 32-bit/ vista 64-bit and have two concern:

1. Their support on all five versions of OS

2. Whether it is compatible with Ghost. Some just won't even their manufacture provide NDIS2 or package drivers. I spend well over 2 days with SiS and nForce4 and I am so ready to move on.

Edited October 30, 2007 by evila

[IcemanND]

Why not use Windows PE 2 and Ghost32 from the GSS 2? Then you don't have to deal with the NDIS driver you use windows 32-bit drivers.

[dubsdj]

i've always used the intel pro 100's or the realtek ones.. norton seems to like them

[FAT64]

3Com cards for me!

[evila]

Why not use Windows PE 2 and Ghost32 from the GSS 2? Then you don't have to deal with the NDIS driver you use windows 32-bit drivers.

The problem with Ghost32 is that even though I might be able to beging the deploy process by first restarting the computer, some NIC will then have problem connecting to the image server once it reboot into dos mode....I am no pro on GSS 2.0, it would be great if you could give me some tips and info. thanks in advance

[IcemanND]

You don't need DOS if you use PE2. Check this guide out http://www.msfn.org/board/GUIDE_Creating_W...XP_t101383.html check out the appendix it tells you where to put the ghost32 executable.

You may not even need to add network drivers but that is described in the guide also.

[jftuga]

My first choice would be an Intel based NIC. You could also try Broadcom, too.

-John

[kickarse]

3com or realtek seem to work the best...

[evila]

so it's Intel, realtek, or 3com???

which model???? what should i look for if I want a board that totally works with everything on GSS 2.0?

[IcemanND]

Have you tried the universal driver that is used by the boot disk wizard in GSS 2.o? I have not found a card that it doesn't work with yet.

[evila]

Have you tried the universal driver that is used by the boot disk wizard in GSS 2.o? I have not found a card that it doesn't work with yet.

no i haven't try that, but what i've done is trying deploy onto a few machines with unrecognizable NIC that ended up using the Universal Driver Template. The result is......they all failed ......as if it was boot from a GSS1.1 boot disk.....

[Atheros]

well i have a fancy script boot disk that works on pretty much everything i use

except NVIDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <<------avoid using this for NDIS

intel 10/100 10/100/1000, marvell, realtek (8167, 8168, 8169, 8137) ETC