Broadcom and Intel NIC issues with Ghost 9.0

[QuarkIT]

Finally got ghosting software pushed in the company, and of course we run into a hurdle.

According to Symantec the two NICs that our Dell PCs are running are not supported.

The two NICs are:

Broadcom 57xx Gigabit NIC
Intel(R)Pro/1000 MT NIC

I've been hunting for a few days now trying to find a way to get the drivers that Ghost is requiring.

When I load Ghost, and it attempts to establish Network Connection it errors out with the WINBOM error (aka I don't see a network card)

Ghost is looking for a txtsetup.oem file when I try to import the OEM drivers (Downloaded from Dell, Broadcom and Intel seperately).

I have also attempted to go to Ghost and import the drivers and make a bootable floppy via Ghost. It still fails to load them, and errors out.

For the time being, I'm going to burn the images to DVD, but I would at some point like to get it running off the network.

Would appreciate any recommendations/help.

 

[Tightpants]

I have managed to create a Ghost drive mapping boot disk for Dell machines with Broadcom NICs. You need the driver file b57.dos.

I went to the Dell Web site support section and entered my service tag number. I did a search for NIC drivers for Windows XP and downloaded the executable file. The file happens to include NDIS2 drivers for DOS which are the files you need.

In Ghost you add a new driver template and browse to extracted files you have just downloaded. Follow the prompts to make the boot disk.

I would imagine you could also follow the same procedure for the Intel NIC.

 

[ITGUY53]

I agree. You do need the B57 file. HP makes the Broadcom NIC and so you can download it there. Then you would just need to add it to Ghost Boot Wizard. Make sure to name it b57$.

Good Luck