Add Third-party OEM network adapter to a Ris installation

Hi experts

Windows 2003 Eng server and Ris installation.

I have problems to generate the .pnf file based on the .inf and .sys file in
the i386 folder. Is it possible to get at trace/log file when restarting the
binlsvc service?

Thanks
Stefan Hammar

What type of nic are you adding? Many nics either require
specific .inf files for RIS, or modification to the
existing .inf to work correctly with RIS.

the "modified" inf file only goes into the \i386 folder,
the full unmodified drivers still reside in $oem$\$1
\Drivers\Nic (or wherever you decide)

It's not normally an issue beyond that. "normally"

Tony.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi experts
>
>Windows 2003 Eng server and Ris installation.
>
>I have problems to generate the .pnf file based on
the .inf and .sys file in
>the i386 folder. Is it possible to get at trace/log file
when restarting the
>binlsvc service?
>
>Thanks
>Stefan Hammar
>
>.
>

Hi Tony

Thanks for your answer!
Notebook PC HP compaq nc 8000
NIC: Broadcom netextreme Gigabit ethernet
b57xp32.inf file

Stefan.

"Tony Roberts" wrote:

> What type of nic are you adding? Many nics either require
> specific .inf files for RIS, or modification to the
> existing .inf to work correctly with RIS.
>
> the "modified" inf file only goes into the \i386 folder,
> the full unmodified drivers still reside in $oem$\$1
> \Drivers\Nic (or wherever you decide)
>
> It's not normally an issue beyond that. "normally"
>
> Tony.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi experts
> >
> >Windows 2003 Eng server and Ris installation.
> >
> >I have problems to generate the .pnf file based on
> the .inf and .sys file in
> >the i386 folder. Is it possible to get at trace/log file
> when restarting the
> >binlsvc service?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Stefan Hammar
> >
> >.
> >
>

It is possible that the HP drivers won't work with RIS.
(my dell D800 drivers didn't)

try these:

http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php

put the .inf, .sys and .cat in the i386 folder, with the
others (including these three) in the $oem$\$1
\Drivers\Nic and make sure you edit the .sif files
appropriatly - and restart the service.

Incidentally, which part of setup is failing?


>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Tony
>
>Thanks for your answer!
>Notebook PC HP compaq nc 8000
>NIC: Broadcom netextreme Gigabit ethernet
>b57xp32.inf file
>
>Stefan.
>
>"Tony Roberts" wrote:
>
>> What type of nic are you adding? Many nics either
require
>> specific .inf files for RIS, or modification to the
>> existing .inf to work correctly with RIS.
>>
>> the "modified" inf file only goes into the \i386
folder,
>> the full unmodified drivers still reside in $oem$\$1
>> \Drivers\Nic (or wherever you decide)
>>
>> It's not normally an issue beyond that. "normally"
>>
>> Tony.
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Hi experts
>> >
>> >Windows 2003 Eng server and Ris installation.
>> >
>> >I have problems to generate the .pnf file based on
>> the .inf and .sys file in
>> >the i386 folder. Is it possible to get at trace/log
file
>> when restarting the
>> >binlsvc service?
>> >
>> >Thanks
>> >Stefan Hammar
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>>
>.
>