Precision 7510 Network Driver WDS

Question

I have a new Precision 7510 that I am trying to image using WDS. I have downloaded the latest driver pack 7510-win7-A00-N1PXX.cab (Win 7 x64) and imported the driver files onto our WDS sever.

I was unable to get the laptop to image. Error missing network driver. Booting the factory image I determined the nic to be - Intel® Ethernet Connection I219-LM but was unable to find the driver on the Dell or Intel site.

Using a Intel® Ethernet Connection I218-LM driver I was able to get the image process to start but now it fails upon first boot. The error - cannot contact \\wds.... network driver missing once the laptop logs in. Multiple drivers are missing so I believe there is an issue with the driver pack.

Any help appreciated.

twhitefgi · Answer

Seems like I am having the same issue. I'll report back if I find a fix.

Lits · Answer

I actually was able to get by this issue. In bios - Boot Sequence - Boot List Option I changed the setting from UEFI to Legacy. This got me by the booting up issue. There are still multiple drivers missing but at least I can finish the image and deploy the device.

s4stockton · Answer

I could never get it to work on WDS. Using the boot.wim from win7 I was able to get to where you can choose the image (never would even get that far using a win81 or win10 boot.wim), but sadly it would then fail to pick up the storage driver. I tried everything, from injecting the latest PE cabs into PE, to loading every driver known to man on the wim and no luck.

The only way I have gotten a 7510 to image is through MDT. You are correct the nic is the l219-LM from Intel. For MDT I used the new driver packs (Dell going away from cabs)from this site :

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/11438.dell-imageassist-driver-cab-files

and the nic driver pack straight from intel:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/network-and-i-o/ethernet-products/intel-gigabit-ethernet-network-connection.html

Even though the l219-lm inst listed, the driver for it is in these packs.

At any rate this has been by far and away the most difficult laptop I have ever tried to image. Dell really needs to look into this. What a PITA.

RickPeterson · Answer

having simular issues with the i219-lm ... when succesfully PXE booting to these imaging servers I get this:

WDS PXE boot:

"A connection to deployment Share (\\servername\DeploymentShare$) could not be made. The following network device did not have a driver installed. PCI\ven_8086&dev_15b7&subsys_06d91028@rev_31
Retry: Try again to connect to deployment share.
Cancel: Give up, cancelling any in-progress task sequence.

Screen is locked up with this message.

Acronis SnapDeploy 5:

Connecting to Acronis Snap Deploy 5 os deploy server
Available Network Interfaces:
No network interfaces are available.
Check your network connections.

seguetech · Answer

Yes, each time, with no effect.

seguetech · Answer

I'm getting the exact same error message as above when using MDT. I've added every driver I can think of to my PE image (from Intel and the Dell CABs) and it still hangs here. About to contact support on this one...

s4stockton · Answer

Did you remember to update the distro after adding the drivers?

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