No Broadcom drivers installed after RIS install complete

**B.Bill** · July 11, 2006

Hi Guys,

I am doing RIS installation on an HP server, of windows 2003 server. I found some helpful information on putting the drivers for the broadcom NIC into the image so I didnt get the PXE boot errors etc, and I have been able to successfully install the OS, but when the OS comes up, the NIC drivers are not installed (obviously the drivers worked in text mode for the install, but arent installing after the OS is installed). I have the drivers in the OemPnpDriversPath = "Drivers\NIC" directory. Anyone have any idea? Thanks in advance for any help.

**RogueSpear** · July 11, 2006

I have have really come to despise the way Microsoft made this unnecessarily confusing. Ok, it sounds like you have the PXE boot up part of things working just fine. I am guessing that since you did, you either edited the .inf file yourself or downloaded a specially made driver with the .inf file already edited for you.

The part where confusion can come in is here. Make sure you are not using the same .inf file in both places. The .inf file in \i386 is the specially edited one. The .inf file that is called by OemPnPDriversPath should be unaltered. In fact driver signing will fail if it is.

Another common omission (guilty of it myself) is forgetting to put OemPreinstall=Yes in your .SIF file.

**B.Bill** · July 11, 2006

In the D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\WINDOWS\i386 directory, my b57xp32.inf contains the following changes per http://bink.nu/Article2180.bink :

[Manufacturer]

%BRCM% = Broadcom

[ControlFlags]

ExcludeFromSelect = *

[broadcom]

The driver (b57xp32.inf) located in D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\WINDOWS\i386\$oem$\$1\Drivers\NIC contains the original, unedited driver supplied by broadcom:

[Manufacturer]

%BRCM% = Broadcom, NTx86.5.1

[ControlFlags]

ExcludeFromSelect = *

[broadcom.NTx86.5.1]

%BCM5700% = BCM5700.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1644

%BCM5700% = BCM5700CX.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1644&REV_21

My D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\WINDOWS\i386\templates\ristndrd.sif file unattended section contains:

[unattended]

OemPreinstall = yes

OemPnpDriversPath = "Drivers\NIC"

FileSystem = LeaveAlone

ExtendOEMPartition = 0

TargetPath = \WINDOWS

OemSkipEula = yes

InstallFilesPath = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%"

LegacyNIC = 1

It sounds like it should work based on your description. Anything else I could be doing wrong?

**RogueSpear** · July 11, 2006

I don't know what "LegacyNIC = 1" means and I can't seem to find reference for it in the help files from Deploy.cab. You may want to omit that entry. Another thing to try is to verify that when the OS is installed, that PnP enumeration will detect your driver as suitable for the NIC when you manually point to the driver (from Device Manager).

**B.Bill** · July 11, 2006

I removed the LegacyNIC=1 entry and reinstalled. I get the same thing. When the machine is up, I can install the driver via device manager fine with no warnings.

**RogueSpear** · July 11, 2006

Everything that you've documented to me looks pretty good. Here are the relevant parts of a .SIF file that I use. You may want to take look over it and see what differs. You may want to double check your entries against the help file found in deploy.cab. There are some entries that require a 1 or 0 while other require a yes or no. Some seem to require quotes while others don't.

;SetupMgrTag
[Branding]
	BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[Components]
	AccessOpt=Off
	chat=off
	deskpaper=off
	freecell=off
	hearts=off
	hyperterm=off
	media_clips=off
	media_utopia=off
	minesweeper=off
	msnexplr=off
	OEAccess=off
	pinball=off
	solitaire=off
	spider=off
	templates=off
	WMAccess=off
	WMPOCM=off
	zonegames=off

[Data]
	AutoPartition=1
	DisableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin=1
	floppyless="1"
	LocalSourceOnCD=1
	MsDosInitiated="1"
	OriSrc="\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"
	OriTyp="4"
	UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Display]
	BitsPerPel=32
	Vrefresh=75
	Xresolution=800
	YResolution=600

[FavoritesEx]

[GuiUnattended]
	AdminPassword=<<encrypted password goes here>>
	DetachedProgram=
	EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
	OEMSkipRegional=1
	OemSkipWelcome=1
	TimeZone=%TIMEZONE%

[Identification]
	DoOldStyleDomainJoin=Yes
	JoinDomain=%MACHINEDOMAIN%

[Networking]
	InstallDefaultComponents=Yes
	ProcessPageSections=Yes

[OSChooser]
	Description="WinXP SP2 - Custom"
	Help="This will install Windows XP SP2."
	ImageType=Flat
	LaunchFile="%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com"

[RemoteInstall]
	Repartition=Yes
	UseWholeDisk=Yes

[SetupData]
	OsLoadOptions="/noguiboot /fastdetect"
	SetupSourceDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"

[Shell]
	CustomDefaultThemeFile="%WINDIR%\Resources\Themes\royale.theme"

[TapiLocation]
	AreaCode=555
	CountryCode=1
	Dialing=Tone
	LongDistanceAccess="9"

[TerminalServices]
	AllowConnections=1

[Unattended]
	AutoActivate=No
	CrashDumpSetting=0
	DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
	FileSystem=LeaveAlone
	Hibernation=No
	NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
	NtUpgrade=No
	OemPreinstall=Yes
	OemSkipEula=Yes
	OverwriteOemFilesOnUpgrade=No
	TargetPath=\WINDOWS
	UnattendMode=FullUnattended
	WaitForReboot=No

[UserData]
	ComputerName=%MACHINENAME%
	FullName="User Name"
	OrgName="Company Name"
	ProductID=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXB

[WindowsFirewall]
	Profiles = WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall

[WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall]
	Mode = 0

**B.Bill** · July 17, 2006

It looks like the information in $oem$ is not being read. I added several drivers to the D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\WINDOWS\i386\$oem$\$1\Drivers directory, and updated the .sif file with their associated paths: OemPnpDriversPath = "Drivers\Nic;Drivers\FC;Drivers\mngint;Drivers\LP1150E" and no drivers for these devices get installed. The drivers install manually without fail after the OS installs. I also added a "net" directory under $1 (D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\WINDOWS\i386\$oem$\$1\net) to at least copy the folder containing the nic drivers to c: during install, but the folder doesnt show up on the c: drive once the install is complete. Anyone have any ideas? Here are the contents of my .sif:

[data]

floppyless = "1"

msdosinitiated = "1"

OriSrc = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%"

OriTyp = "4"

LocalSourceOnCD = 1

DisableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin = 1

[setupData]

OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect"

SetupSourceDevice = "\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"

[unattended]

OemPreinstall = yes

OemPnpDriversPath = "\Drivers\Nic;\Drivers\FC;\Drivers\mngint;\Drivers\LP1150E"

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

FileSystem = LeaveAlone

ExtendOEMPartition = 0

TargetPath = \WINDOWS

OemSkipEula = yes

InstallFilesPath = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%"

[userData]

ProductKey= <Key goes here>

FullName = %USERNAME%

OrgName = %ORGNAME%

ComputerName = %MACHINENAME%

[GuiUnattended]

OemSkipWelcome = 1

OemSkipRegional = 1

TimeZone = 4

AdminPassword = <password goes here>

[LicenseFilePrintData]

AutoMode = PerSeat

[Display]

BitsPerPel = 16

XResolution = 800

YResolution = 600

VRefresh = 60

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[NetServices]

MS_Server=params.MS_PSched

[identification]

JoinDomain = %MACHINEDOMAIN%

DoOldStyleDomainJoin = Yes

[RemoteInstall]

Repartition = Yes

UseWholeDisk = Yes

[TerminalServices]

AllowConnections=1

[OSChooser]

Description ="Windows Server 2003, Enterprise"

Help ="Automatically installs Windows Server 2003, Enterprise without prompting the user for input."

LaunchFile = "%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com"

ImageType =Flat

Version="5.2 (3790)"

**SebastianM** · August 4, 2006

It looks like the information in $oem$ is not being read. I added several drivers to the D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\WINDOWS\i386\$oem$\$1\Drivers directory, and updated the .sif file with their associated paths: OemPnpDriversPath = "Drivers\Nic;Drivers\FC;Drivers\mngint;Drivers\LP1150E" and no drivers for these devices get installed. The drivers install manually without fail after the OS installs. I also added a "net" directory under $1 (D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\WINDOWS\i386\$oem$\$1\net) to at least copy the folder containing the nic drivers to c: during install, but the folder doesnt show up on the c: drive once the install is complete. Anyone have any ideas? Here are the contents of my .sif:
...

Don't copy the drivers to WINDOWS\i386\$oem$ !

The $oem$ directory has to be under the WINDOWS directory, I made the same failure and needed 3 days to figure that out

**RogueSpear** · August 4, 2006

Don't copy the drivers to WINDOWS\i386\$oem$ !
The $oem$ directory has to be under the WINDOWS directory, I made the same failure and needed 3 days to figure that out

Excellent catch. I can't believe I didn't see that in the previous posts myself.

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