Ghost Solution Suite

We are running Ghost Solution Suite and are trying to deploy a Windows 7 x86 image to about thirty Asus EEE pcs, model B202. I have downloaded the NIC drivers from:

http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=B202&p=20&s=2

And added the drivers to WINPE as per these instructions

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH110136&locale=en_US

Then created a USB boot disk using the Ghost boot wizard. Choosing WinPE.

I can boot the EEE PCs into Ghost but none of them can access GhostCast as they all show 127.0.0.1 IP address. 

Everything I read indicates that I do not have the correct NIC driver installed in WinPe, but I follow the instructions above exactly to load the driver.

What am I missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Can you perform an ipconfig/release and renew command.   If so it may be that the link isn't set up on the router/switch/nic in time for the DHCP server request from winpe.    you can have a nic that is loading fine but a environmental issue that caused the dhcp server request to not finish in time to get a good IP.  You can also set a static IP on your usb boot disk to avoid this but wouldn't do so until you can confirm that you do pull an IP when using a ipconfig /release and then ipconfig /renew.

Also make sure that the driver you have added from Asus is the vista 32 bit driver.  That is what the version of winpe that ghost uses.  I don't see any vista 32 drivers listed in that link.   You may need to go to the realtek web page to get your vista drivers downloaded for PE.

Cheers.

Did you use Vista 32 bit drivers? The version of WinPE used by GSS requires this version of driver to work, and this applies REGARDLESS of which operating system you plan to image.

That was it, I needed to download the Vista 32 bit driver from Realtek, and once I did that It properly installed the driver and booted. Thank you both very very much.

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