Adding NIC Drivers to RIS under WDS

[TommyTravolta]

Got some serious problems in adding NIC Drivers to my Ris under 2k3Server with WDS.

To deploy Vista I had to upgrade the RIS to WDS.

To integrate some drivers to ris, I only had to copy the Nic Driver INF & SYS to my I386 Directory and

Stop / Start the BINLSVC Service.

The PNF File was created and the PXE Client was able to boot the Installation.

With WDS, the BINLSVC Service is not there anymore, it is called WDSSERVER now.

Starting and Stopping this Service doesn´t integrate the drivers. Maybe there is another way to integrate

NIC drivers into the Risetups ?

Anybody got some Ideas ?

Everything I tried was a mess ...

Just get the message, that the installation doesn´t have a driver for the network card ...

Best Regards,

Tom

[Br4tt3]

Hi!

We had the same issue as you are describing but at last it just worked... I also suspected that the .inf could not be parsed into a .pnf since the binlsvc is no loner in place after the wds upgrade, but then at last, the parsing of the .inf was done. Dont ask me how, cause I did not change any settings. From now, I have been able to install new / add new drivers as normally into the "old" RIS box:es without

any additional configuration. I also asked my MS contact person how this worked, and he said they put the same parser into the wdsserver service as they used within the BINLSVC service. The only logical explenation I know off, is that you must ensure that you are running wds in mixed mode but after that it is a big enigma!

Let me know if the ultimate truth comes along.... I will keep an eye on this thread! and if there is anyone else that has run into this issue....

[TommyTravolta]

Thanks for fast reply,

give me a hint ...

I THINK I AM in mixed mode, I can choose between the "new" Longhorn setup to deploy Vista AND

old RIS Services at PXE Boot ...

Is THIS mixed mode, or do I have to do anything more ?

If it is in mixed mode, just make a

net stop wdsserver ?

Sorry for that stupid questions,

but I have my problems with WDS ...

[TommyTravolta]

Well, new issue ...

Tried Via Rhine2 Nic drivers,

Just copied into i386, started to boot from Network

--> pnf files were created automatic !, ok !

Tried the same with Intel e1000 series

--> nothing happens ...

How to manually get this pnf files ... ?