[Technical] Optima nic problem

[Paul Williamson]

Hi Terry,

I had similar problems getting our new Optimas going. On the motherboard
CD however under drivers/network you will find the appropriate network
driver. I ended up using an ndis driver.

We got the nvidia chipset based amd64 optimas so it is a different driver,
however I put together a custom driver in ghost, following instructions i
found on google and was ghosting in no time.

Good luck!

Paul Williamson
Network Administrator, Huntingtower School
http://www.huntingtower.vic.edu.au
paulw at huntingtower.vic.edu.au
Phone: 03 9831 9463
Mobile: 0433 167 247
Fax: 03 9888 1089


Terry Hawkins said:
> Hi all,
>
> We have just purchased 50 computer from Optima.
>
> Like most others, they were late with fire wire ports still not supplied.
>
> My problem is trying to ghost an image over the network (I know this is
> easy) but for some reason the Intel pro 1000 network adapter (which is
> working fine) is not being picked up by ghost.
> Ghost is saying it can't find a nic and can't load to the network.
>
> I have tried several different startup disks from version 7.5 and version
> 8
> of ghost. I contacted Optima but they have no idea (they are still
> investigating).
>
> Anyone got an idea (please let it be a stupid oversight)
>
> Terry Hawkins
>
>
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