Intel Gigabit driver not detected

The PENetwork ( V0.58.B8 ) tool cannot detect my Intel 82566DC Gigabit ethernet card. To be sure of the network functionality of my Gena build,  I could get working the monolithic Broadcom LAN driver on a IBM server. I event tested the Intel driver offered by driverpacks.net The interesting point is that DRVIMPE.EXE can load the Intel driver but PENetwork fails.

Hi Vortex,

I just updated Penetwork plugin with latest Penetwork,
http://gena.cwcodes.net/projectindex.php
see if it helps ?

Hi Lancelot,

Thanks for the update, I will try it tomorrow at work.

I think I found what's causing the problem : deleting the INFCACHE.1file in the X:\I386\Inf folder solved the problem. Penetwork detected the Intel Ethernet card

Hi Lancelot,

I tried the updated script. Booting from the new Gena build, I got the error message :

Autoit error
Line1 - Error : Variable used without being declared

My solution was to restore the original Penetwork script and disable the option InfCacheBuild in the Post Processing Tools section.

Hi Vortex,

yes you are right..
http://theoven.org/index.php?topic=442.0
I will ask Chris when he comes back 


Thanks for the feedback  ,
I will revert back penetwork from server
 and disable infcache build as default (with a warning),
  some time tonight (or tomorrow)



edit:
attached v10 plugin for future inspection

There is indeed a concern on version 0.59.Beta1 (Variable used without being declared)
Pending correction by Holger, if someone wants to inform him, I made a mod on the AutoIt3 sourcecode.

I defined Dim $bPrevStartup = False before testing if Profile editor is used "If $bUseEditor Then ... Dim ..."
It seems to work well like that but it is better to wait for a better Holger's solution
and to use the version 0.58.2 final  for now.

For testing, here is the plugin based on the one above with just the modified program attached.
 PENetworkGena59beta.7z (2517 kB - downloaded 142 times.)

and the autoit3 sourcecode modified, the original is on the Holger's website http://holger.orgfree.com/
 PENetwork.au3.7z (124.26 kB - downloaded 122 times.)

probably better for Gena, if you wish.
Here is the same plugin with version 0.58.2 final in place of the v0.58.B8.

 PENetworkGena.7z (2463.09 kB - downloaded 140 times.)

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the update, 0.58.2 works nicely,
but it reproduce old bug of 0.56 that breaks .inf files ( Process-Infs )
I followed your plugin by using v0.58 B8 to process .inf files ,
 as a precaution also Process-Drivers

+ maybe this is also related to Win7PE SE - VirtualBox Network not working topic http://theoven.org/index.php?topic=1158

now on Gena server   

See You

Hello Lancelot,

maybe you can give me more details about:
"but it reproduce old bug of 0.56 that breaks .inf files ( Process-Infs )".

Ok, the latest tests/doings are long ago for a XP based PE.
Maybe I should check also these agains (Gena/LiveXP)...
The 0.59Beta1 problem I already solved in a newer version Beta2 but is not published yet cause there are some small things not finished.

Thanks and greets :)
Holger

Hi Holger,

for quick tests, use Gena Appetizer
http://gena.cwcodes.net/Compressed/index.php
and add "Penetwork Gena" plugin 



adding PENetwork Gena v10 on above reply 6 ChrisR plugin, which has  0.58.2 final breaks things,
testing is easy, here is 2 corrupted files
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iej4a4a8jtkua64/netinf.7z?dl=0


To fix,
I updated ChrisR plugin to PENetwork Gena v11 on server, by using 0.58 B8 to process inf files (/inipatch)
 (to be safe side, I also used 0.58 B8  on /drvcopy )
http://gena.cwcodes.net/projectindex.php
http://gena.cwcodes.net/Projects/Gena/Components/Core/1%20System/Network/PENetworkGena.script




I am pretty sure same problem also on SE plugin,
http://win81se.cwcodes.net/projectindex.php
http://win81se.cwcodes.net/Projects/Win8.1SE/Components/penetwork.script
since there is another report
http://theoven.org/index.php?topic=1158
I tried to explain at reply 10 there


I hope above helps 

Thanks for infos.
I found the bug in the patching routine.
Until now I thought the inf-files were unicode.
But it can ANSI or unicode files.
I did some tests and now it is ok again and I will implement this in the next beta2.

Greets :-)
Holger

Hi Holger, another one about PENetwork. 

You run wpeinit.exe on WinPE2.0 and later, but this seems to be a bit overkill.
wpeinit will do many thing like scanning for removable drives.
On some machines this takes over 15 seconds.

But there is another command that should be more suited: Wpeutil InitializeNetwork

Hi Holdger,

Welcome 

I am glad this helps 






I have a mini requests:

Following history info:
Changed: DrvCopy params, OS is ignored by default and used only if one of the CMD parameters is XP, /XP, 2003, /2003, Vista, /Vista, Win7, /Win7, Win8, /Win8

+ can you change 2003 to W2003 

++++
Since 2003x64 and XPx64 use same set of drivers 
Can we have additional DrvCopy params available:

XPx86
W2003x86
NT5x64

Something we always deal with on Gena 

See You