So we have a few new laptops around. They have built in Intel Pro 100 VE NICs. So I boot off our standard CD that has a DOS Driver for this NIC, and it won't load the driver at all. Fiddle with it for a day, doesn't work.
Workaround: Grab a PCMCIA NIC that does have a working DOS driver. So we use a Netgear FA511. Driver loads. Can't get a DHCP address, 19913 Error. Odd, this adapter gets a DHCP address in other laptops.
Workaround: Assign it a static IP address, not really preferable, because I now have to maintain multiple boot images, one for DHCP, and one for each static IP I would like to use. No huge deal though. So it loads, I do our standard Unicast connection to the ghost server. Give it the session name, and let it go automatic detection. Never connects. After about 5 minutes I reboot the machine, and instead of automatic detection, I give it the IP address of the Ghost server. Still does not connect. After about 15 minutes it comes back with "Failed to join GhostCast Session with GhostCode 19901.
I'd love a solution to the last problem at the very least, if not the previous 2.
The machine I'm currently testing is a Gateway MX8711. The internal NIC is an Intel Pro 100 VE, the PCMCIA NIC is a netgear FA511. There is no way to disable PnP OS in the BIOS (I believe that's the issue with DHCP anyways). The server and the client are on the same subnet.