RIS (XP) and Dell Broadcom adapters

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Thanks, Mark. I appreciate you posting this.

Oli



"Mark" <mark@REMOVETHISBITmossywell.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> This actually applies to Windows 2003 RIS. I thought I'd post this in case
> anyone else is having a similar problem and pulling their hair out! The
> problem was getting a RIS (Windows XP) install working for a Dell Inspiron
> 1150 laptop, which uses the Broadcom 440x onboard NIC. Basically, during
> the RIS install of XP (RIS server already RIsetup by this stage)
> complained of not being able to find the correct network driver. (See
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315279)
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> I tried many fixes, including those in Q315279 and Q246184. I also played
> around with various INF files until voila! I got it working. Here's how:
>
> 1. Firstly, use the DELL drivers for the 440x (in this case for XP, driver
> R71271), not the generic Broadcom drivers.
>
> 2. Copy the inf (i.e. bcm4sbxp.inf) and sys files to the
> <drive>:RemoteInstall\Setup....I386 folder.
>
> 3. At the same level as the I386 folder, create the structure
> $oem$\$1\Drivers\Nic and drop the three inf, sys and cat files in there.
>
> 4. Edit the inf file that you copied in stage 2 only (NOT the one in stage
> 3) as follows:
>
> Change the [Manufacturer] section to:
> [Manufacturer]
> %V_BCM% = BROADCOM
>
> Change the next [BROADCOM.NTx86.5.1] header to [BROADCOM]
>
> 5. Edit the ristndrd.sif file as follows:
>
> Add the following two lines to the [Unattended] section:
> OemPreinstall = yes
> OemPnpDriversPath = \Drivers\Nic
>
> (Note that Q246184 doesn't include the leading backslash before the
> Drivers, though I had to include it.)
>
> 6. Stop and restart the BINL service and that did the trick for me.
>
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> YMMV of course depending on the hardware, but I hope this helps or at
> least provides a pointer to a fix.
>
> Cheers
> Mark
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