Testing if a Network driver is compatable with WinPE
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Issue/Introduction
DHCP retries are returned when going into WinPE. I have located a driver and added it to WinPE but it still gets DHCP retries.
Environment
Deployment Solution 8.x
Ghost Solution Suite 3.x
Resolution
1. When you're getting “Restarting DHCP client... Retry *” messages, hit Control-C to cancel it:
- Type IPCONFIG in the command console window. If no IP addresses are listed then you do not have a functioning network driver installed yet
2. Locate the driver by running the following command while in WinPE environment: dir /s <driver.inf> (if found, note the path of the driver)
3. CD <noted path of driver.inf>
4. Run the command "DRVLOAD <driver.inf>" (DRVLOAD should report that the driver has loaded successfully.
- If you receive an 'unable to load' error (eg Error 0x80070002), check you have included all .sys and .dll files in the same folder)
5. Then initialize the network stack type: NETCFG -WinPE or wpeutil initializeNetwork
6. Run ipconfig to check to see if an IP address has been acquired. If Yes, Success. If not, retry with another driver.
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