NIC, above all!

[Xavierxray]

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for reading my litle problem.

I presume that this has been answerd before, but I have the NIC driver problem :

Now I have many different network cards etc. as I work in a municipal and there is a geographic situation which leads to people just buying machines and excepting us at IT to "handle it"

So with all these machines, once in a while I can launch the EXP and get the IP etc all the way trough to when the installation begins.

This is when the setup scans the hardware and decides that I don't have the drivers for the NIC.

I've read a lot of places about how to do it but I have some questions on how to do this.

First:

Which method (RIS, SysPrep, Riprep ...) is best when there are a lot of hardware differences, I also want to include software and would rather not have to do installations after the OS is done.

Second:

Where do I place the drivers?

Third:

When I specify the location of the drivers, what is the limit of the length that can be placed and are subfolders inside subfolders insisde subfolders (etc.) scanned?

example:

(If i specify $1\drivers\003network\3Com will it find drivers onside $1\drivers\003network\3com\whatever\whatever) ?

Finally:

I saw some of you had grouped togheter and that I can download software which could do many auto things, do any of the relate to this?

Any help would be helpfull as I am not yet employed (it's a Norwegian welfare thing) and want to impress the "Captain" so that he'll maybe hire me

And I'm kinda short on time....

Edited August 31, 2005 by Xavierxray

[cheezus420]

Ive been using RIS running on a windows 2003 server. This has worked great, seeing that most of the machines here all have different hardware setup. There are driver packs that I use (created by Bashrat the sneaky). They work GREAT . However if you use them with an RIS setup, you have to do a few extra steps to get them up and running all right. here are a couple links to check out and read up on:

Bashrat the sneaky

and for RIS:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...s+installation]

B)

[Xavierxray]

Thanks!

I've already read that one, actually I have it stored on my laptop and I keep looking from that one to my server and back and fort and so forth.

It's just that I can't seem to get the info I need...or rather I don't understand

[cheezus420]

Hmmmm.... I followed roguespears guide to the t and it worked great for me (however it did take me 2 tries to get it to work. I had problems understanding steps 17 and 19, but got them figured out. Let me know if these parts were unclear, Maybe I can help to explain) Did u try to just place the driver files (.inf, .sys, and .cat) right into the i386 on your RIS, and then restarting the service??? That may solve your problem.

[Xavierxray]

Maybe I can help to explain)  Did u try to just place the driver files (.inf, .sys, and .cat) right into the i386 on your RIS, and then restarting the service???  That may solve your problem.

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Yes, I did

And thats what is so about all of it!

But maybe this is part of the NIC intel EXP f!ck up?

The UA setup starts up and is about to start the installation when I get that "Image does not contain drivers for your NIC" message.

it's all really

If you could just explain two simple things,

1. what should I use when there are loads of different HW out there that need drivers

2.How do I get the drivers for that HW in so that UA setup will run, intel 1000pro has proven to be a b***h when I try install, it also gives that "no driver" message instead of starting the setup.

SOLVED, Added a short post that explains the solution to my problem.

NIC drivers for UA Textsetup

Edited September 13, 2005 by Xavierxray