Hi Charlie,

This thread might help you: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/i-have-tryied-add-driver-winpe-intel-82577lm at least it seems to be the same question :)

My first issue is that i cannot find how to extract the inf files i need to add to WinPe, i have downloaded the driver from Dell extracted the files and all i have is this:

Well I am not a DELL guy, but I just downloaded the driver in a file called INTEL_825XX-GIGABIT-PLATFORM_A01_R267025 from DELL. make sure you select VISTA as OS and that and under network you can find Intel 825xx Gigabit Platform LAN Network Device. Once you have downloaded that EXE file, it can be extracted (using winrar). Once extracted you can finde different folders with OS/bit specific drivers, meaning the INF, CAT etc files needed.

I hope this link will work for you: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&releaseid=R267025&SystemID=LAT_E6510&servicetag=&os=WLH&osl=en&deviceid=11814&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=2&catid=5&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=5&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=392592

This is an actual installer program, so the simplest solution is to run the main installer (which I suspect is BDSetup.exe).
Depending on how the installer is written, it may either deploy all the files to an installation folder and you then select this folder when you need to install drivers through the hardware wizard, or it does all the work for you and dumps the driver files and INF file in the right place for plug and play to pick it up.

One other method worth trying is to perform an administrative install of the driver MSI - which I suspect is the one called PROSETDX.MSI

So if you run the following from a command line, in the folder containing the above files:

msiexec /a prosetdx.msi

you should then be prompted for a folder location into which the administrative install should be placed. This is normally a fully unpacked version of all the content in the MSI and associated CAB files, from which you may then be able to extract the INF and associated driver files.

I would say that mlogan has done all the hard work for you on this one.
Let us know if this solves your problem.

Thanks so much mlogan, i extracted the file and i now have the required files. Much appreciated!

Back to my task, how can i add these drivers to my WinPE image? I am running DS9 SP1 with WinPe2.1

I see that in the GUI in PXE configuration Utility, i can regenerate the Boot images, do i just need to add the drivers somewhere in the WinPE folder then click regenerate?

If yes do you know the path to the WinPE drivers folder?

You should EDIT the boot image using the PXE configuration utility. Once you click the EDIT button, you will get to the Edit shared menu window. Click Edit bootdisk image and a new program Boot disk creator will launch. Click the Edit button and follow the Wizard.

It seems that you might have multiple PXE servers. In the PXE config util you should select File > Choose PXE Server and then select Shared Configuration. Then you can change the configuration for all your PXE servers. The one you should make the canges to would normally be called WinPE Managed but for you it might be WInPE but I can't be sure.

But of course you could pay me to come on site to help you

I wouldnt mind getting some help, you ready to come to Amsterdam?
I did as you advised, choosed Share Configuration, ran the wizard then uploaded the drivers file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers the image is new reprocessed, i saved the configuration and updated our 3 servers.
But i still cannot use the drivers as trying to image laptop get DHCP retry messages...

Does your laptop have both wired and wireless LAN connections?
Is there any possibility that it is trying to get an IP address using the Wireless NIC instead of the wired NIC? If both drivers are available in WinPE then of course both may end up installed, with the usual risks of confusion if your site also provides both wired and wireless connections.
As a cross check, can you turn off your wireless NIC if you are trying to connect using the wired LAN port.

The laptop has bot wired and wireless.
I disabled the wireless but still same error. See screenshot attached, this is where i put the driver files.

I am not conversant with the WinPE management system used by Altiris DS, so hopefully the information supplied by mlogan earlier may help if revisited.
WinPE mimics windows in many ways, and therefore I would expect driver to go into the drivers folder, but the associated INF files should be in the windows\inf folder as that is where windows will look for the plug and play ID associated with your NIC.

By the way, having obtained the driver for your NIC, have you checked that it actually works by a manual install on a machine with the O/S installed from CD ?

Have a look at my article on getting a list of plug and play IDs from any machine prior to imaging:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/utility-assist-identifying-plug-and-play-drivers

This is best run on the manufacturer's install of the operating system, whatever it is, as it should have a full complement of all device drivers and the code will extract all the PNP IDs as well as a list of the driver names. This can be extremely useful when you come to sourcing individual drivers for a build using a different operating system. The INF file associated with any particular hardware device, such as a NIC, must include the correct PNP ID for the device in your system otherwise the driver will not get loaded. If you have a list of PNP ids for your entire system, it is easy to find the PNP id for any device, then check it is present in the INF file of a downloaded driver. If it is, then there is a very good chance that you have the correct driver as long as it is for the target operating system as well.

A second article: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/readyadventures-winpe
discusses how to work with WinPE from the downloaded media. This article covers the Vista version of WInPE which is the same version as is used in DS as far as I am aware, and a section discusses how to add drivers to an offline image manually. This is not a substitute for Altiris documentation as it is intended for users of the native Microsoft WinPE system rather than the Altiris methodology which adds a nice front end, but hopefully it will help with understanding the underlying technology.
ImageX, by the way, is Microsoft's equivalent to Ghost, and can be used to create images of hard disks as well.

Hi Charlie,

You shouldn't write anything manually, like it seems you do in your last scrrendump. What you should do is:

1. Rightclick on the top folder WInPE (MenuOption131) and select Edit Configuration
2. This will bring you to step  1 of 12 click Next
3. At 2 of 12 click the Have disk and browse your way to the drivers you downloaded.
4. Once you have added the drivers you want, click the Refresh button (Still on step 2 of 12).
5. Click Next untilll you reach Step 6 of 12 and manke sure you CHECKMARK the Create entry ion the LMHOST..... and put in the right name/IP
6. Now Click Next and Finish untill you are done with the Wizard and the PXE files has been created.
7. Once you are back in PXE Configuration Utility make sure you press save
8. Try you new PXE image
9. Report back how it went :)