dc7800p desktop WDS deployment - network error

[Shannon Rowe]

Hi,

I am trying to deploy a WDS image to a 7800p desktop pc but when the image loads it produces the following error:

"WdsClient: An error occurred while starting networking: a matching network card driver was not found in this image. Please have your Administrator add the network driver for this machine to the Windows PE Image on the Windows Deployment Services servers."


I have tried injecting the network drivers from sp36743 (well-some of them, some will not inject) into the .wim file using the instructions here:
http://apcmag.com/5436/customise_windows_pe_2_0

but it still produces the same error.

Can anyone provide any tips or solutions to try and resolve this?

Thanks,
Shannon

[Sam Curalov]

I'm having the same issue except i'm working on a HP DC5800.

[Anrefsah]

I also have this problem on DC5800 machines.
Have tried to apply the network card driver to both image 1 and 2 in the wim file.

I have tried to use the inf file e1e5132.inf from the RIS drivers from Intel.
This is the driver that is installed on the machine when i install Windows XP manually, and installs the drivers manually.

Have you to manage to solve this issue?

[Anrefsah]

I finaly found a solution, I just downloaded all the drivers from http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=no&prodNameId=3658083&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=3658081&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1093#11395 and unpacked the exe files.
Then I go through the four folders with the drivers from c:\swsetup and copied all folders with inf files inside to c:\temp\drivers

I then just followed the instructions from here http://apcmag.com/how_to_inject_drivers_into_microsofts_free_os_windows_pe_20.htm.

If you unpack the drivers to c:\temp, the command for adding the network drivers will be like this.
peimg /inf=c:\Temp\Driver\*.inf /image=c:\Temp\Mount

I get one error, but it worked anyway.
Don't know with driver that did the difference, but who cares?

Hope this can help you too.

[Sam Curalov]

Thank a lot. That was what I had done to get it going. I threw me off what the RIS folder with .inf files. That was what i was using and not working for me.

[Kevin Kissack]

I'm having the same problem.

I have prepared a DC7800p image and made it available on WDS. When the deploy boot image loads, the setup continues without waiting for the Intel Drivers and we receive a DHCP error.

Typically it will assign a 169. IP address until I do ipconfig /renew

I've tried both sets of Intel drivers from Intel and HP.

I eventually got it to work by doing a ipconfig /renew as soon as I could load a command prompt.

I've managed to complete images for nc6320, 6910p and 6715b fine.

It must be something to do with the NIC driver load times.

P.S. I've also tried the boot.wim 6.0.6001 from the Vista SP1 MSDN DVD.

Any information would be great.

[Cody Randall]

I've injected all the inf files i could find for that network card from the HP site, XP, Vista, driver from the Intel site and I'm still not having any luck.