I am slowly going crazy with this!!
We have WDS installed on Windows 2008R2 server. We've been using it fine for years deploying various Windows XP images.
I recently created a new Win7 x64 image, and have been successfully deploying it to various hardware platforms. We use Dell almost exclusively, and I've treid the Windows 7 image on various different models.
We've recently taken delivery of a Dell Optiplex 7010 USFF unit, with Intel 82579LM ethernet chipset.
I am unable to capture or deploy to that unit. I get an error stating WDSClient: no matching network controller.
Here's what I've tried so far...
I've injected the x64 drivers from the Dell website, and also tried injecting the ones directly from Intel - no joy. I used DISM to inject, and using the /get-drivers option can verify that they're injected ok. I did also try the x86 drivers in case there was an issue.
I've added a package within the WDS environment and added it to both the boot and capture image I want to use.
I've added the path to the WinPE pass within my WDS unattend file. Still not working.
I even pulled the boot.wim file from the Dell media, created new boot and capture images, injected the drivers again and still no joy.
If I try to capture, I can't access the WDS server. Shift-F10, then running IPCONFIG shows no IP address. If I DRVLOAD the same drivers that I am injecting, I can get IP address from DHCP, which assures me I'm using the correct drivers.
I really have no idea what else to try at this stage. What have I missed?
Thanks in advance.