Latitude D510 - Broadcom 4400 Ghost Boot Disk

Question

I'm having difficulty making a DOS boot disk for this system ... any ideas where I can get a (working) set of NDIS drivers? Broadcom's website version isn't working.   Thanks.

JonathanAKM · Answer

I'm having the same issue. I tryed the Dell download, the B57.dos driver, the latest from Broadcom.   I tryed Altiris and Ghost.   Can a Dell support rep reply to this? We know you are using some DOS driver to image it.   Thanks,

mo33 · Answer

scratch that - just got broadcom's driver to work http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php BCM4401 Drivers - DOS NDIS2 (11/23/04)

mo33 · Answer

same problem over here... anyone?

mo33 · Answer

Don't have a 'network.ini' file but there is 'protocol.ini' and 'system.ini' ----------- protocol.ini ----------- [network.setup] version=0x3110 netcard=b44,1,b44,1 transport=tcpip,TCPIP lana0=b44,1,tcpip [b44] DRIVERNAME=b44$ [protman] drivername=PROTMAN$ PRIORITY=MS$NDISHLP [tcpip] BINDINGS=b44 NBSessions=6 SubNetMask0=255 255 255 0 DisableDHCP=0 DriverName=TCPIP$ LANABASE=0 ----------- system.ini ------------ [network drivers] netcard=b44.dos transport=tcpdrv.dos,nemm.dos devdir=A:\NET LoadRMDrivers=yes [Password Lists] *Shares=A:
et\Share000.PWL

ericbroz · Answer

Can you copy & paste your protocol.ini and network.ini files for me? I've used that NDIS and Ghost 8's boot disk creator and still not getting the 4401 to work.   Thanks

ericbroz · Answer

System.ini was what I wanted ... been stringing cable all day (FINALLY replacing our wonderful Thicknet with Fiber-fed UTP ... I think BlackBox is going to go out of business now that I'm no longer buying Ethernet Tranceivers and Vampire Taps!

wbone · Answer

I've just purchased 3 D510's.  I seems the Broadcom 440 does not support PXE.  I need this so I can deploy image up or down using Altiris.  Does anyone know of a workaround?

vanmanga · Answer

had this same issue with 16 new latitude d510's that i need to image.  after a day and a half solid, i finally found the solution.  you have to use an old driver which wasn't exactly easy to find.  go to opendrivers.com to get the broadcom 440x dos/ndis driver and make sure you get version 3.04 (the latest driver 3.07 is the one that doesn't work).  this worked fine for my symantec ghost 8.

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