[gosh]

jaclaz, on Jan 29 2010, 04:22 AM, said:

@gosh
By omitting initially that it was a verbatim copy and paste from someone else's blog, you did give the impression :

• that the works was done partly by a colleague of yours
  
• that one of your customers had a wired problem now solved by wireless
  
• that you were substantially familiar with the thingies and somehow "endorsed" them or their use

@Eagle710
You plainly stated that you were able to enable wireless connections in a PE 2.1 or 3.0, or at least this is the only way your post can be read.

Since I didn't believe you much , in order to try and understand what was it all about, I posted here:
http://www.boot-land...showtopic=10250
reporting the news.

The phishing worked, and wimb got hooked.

Now, it seems like turning out that:
gosh believes blindly in whatever MS writes (which does surprise me ) and never actually tested the thingies
Eagle710 has never had this working as well

IMHO the misunderstandings could have been easily avoided if what is coming out now was stated initially, by taking a bit more care in the wording and quoting the sources/adding details.

Thanks to wimb for having taken the time to start the actual testing.



jaclaz

Look, i am very busy. When i find something useful i post it on this site. In retrospect its easy to i should have done this, i should have done that. The microsoft blog said this worked fine without any issues. I had no reason to doubt 2 microsoft employees who said this worked fine. Dont shoot the messenger. If you have a complaint direct it at the original source - the microsoft blog. It would be nice to get a thanks every once in awhile.

[Eagle710]

I will try and find time to post a zip file of all the regedits and system file I required to get Wireless to work in WinPE 2.1 but have been very busy as of late. Please proceed with testing and I will update you all when I get the chance.

I may be able to take a screenshot of connection to a wireless accesspoint if you would like a quick Proof of Concept. Let me know!

[wimb]

Unprotected Wireless Internet in Windows PE 3.0 was realized:
It is necessary to let dism Add WLAN drivers in specific way from provided folder WIN7_drivers.
As before, dism was also used to add winpe-wmi.cab and the HotFix WinPE_OCs\Windows6.1-KB972831-x86.cab

The WLANAPI missing message in PENetwork.exe was overcome by Adding WIN7_system32\wlanapi.dll of Windows 7 to system32
Internet access and PENetwork don't work yet for WPA encryption.
There is now a message for problem to be solved:

file netwzc.inf is missing, which is needed for support of Wireless Zero Configuration

Code used to make Windows PE 3.0 - pe3w.iso

copype.cmd x86 F:\winpe3_x86

copy /y F:\winpe3_x86\winpe.wim F:\winpe3_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim

imagex.exe /mountrw F:\winpe3_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim 1 F:\winpe3_x86\mount

Dism /image:F:\winpe3_x86\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\WinPE_FPs\winpe-wmi.cab"
Dism /image:F:\winpe3_x86\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\WinPE_FPs\en-us\winpe-wmi_en-us.cab"
Dism /image:F:\winpe3_x86\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\WinPE_OCs\Windows6.1-KB972831-x86.cab"
:: Add WLAN drivers
Dism /image:F:\winpe3_x86\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:F:\winpe3_x86\WIN7_drivers /recurse
:: Add wlanapi.dll
xcopy.exe F:\winpe3_x86\WIN7_system32\*.* F:\winpe3_x86\mount\Windows\System32\ /i /k /e /r /y /h
:: Add Browse for Folder support by making empty folder Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop
md F:\winpe3_x86\mount\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop

imagex.exe /unmount /commit F:\winpe3_x86\mount

oscdimg.exe -n -m -o -bF:\winpe3_x86\etfsboot.com F:\winpe3_x86\ISO F:\winpe3_x86\pe3w.iso

More Info: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...mp;#entry161011


Windows PE 3.0 with Wireless Internet - Opera Portable and PENetwork.exe
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This post has been edited by wimb: 01 February 2010 - 01:55 AM

[allanf]

Probably a long-shot... but might be interesting to do a Dependency Walker profile of some other wireless networking manager - like one specific to the adaptor.

For example, Intel® PROSet/Wireless WiFi Connection Utility for Windows 7 32-Bit*. There's a zip file there which may be installable to the off-line winpe. Alternatively, the program may be installable online in a running winpe and the installer would probable say what's missing and required.

To start, add all the packages in the WAIK and the wireless driver, and throw the installer and depends.exe into /system32..., and have plenty of RAM.

... just a thought.

Regards

[wimb]

Thanks allanf for your interest and help.

First attempt to use Intel Utility ICS_s32.exe in Windows PE 3.0 environment failed.

However, I will try now to follow approach of PENetwork.script
and add required files and registry entries needed for WiFi Support with encryption.

Your advice to add empty Desktop folder to config\systemprofile works excellent.
We now have Browse for Folder support in Windows PE 3.0

This post has been edited by wimb: 02 February 2010 - 08:48 AM

[wimb]

Wireless Internet with WPA2-PSK + AES Encryption is realized in Windows PE 3.0

I have used Registry Settings from Windows 7 edited according to PENetwork.script of Holger
And I have added in Windows PE 3.0 the missing but Required files according to Holger's script.

More details will follow ....

Windows PE 3.0 with Wireless Encrypted Internet - Opera Portable and PENetwork.exe
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This post has been edited by wimb: 03 February 2010 - 08:40 AM

[jaclaz]

jaclaz

[nicklad]

Hey all!

Some of you might be interested in a thread over on the TechNet forums "WinPE 802.1x TLS authentication during zero touch?".

By the end of the thread, a method of getting 802.1X working under Windows PE is given.
Microsoft still haven't given any documentation on getting this all working properly.
Any use/thoughts?

This post has been edited by nicklad: 22 February 2010 - 10:26 AM

[nicklad]

Documentation has finally trickled out from Microsoft!

Adding Support for 802.1x to WinPE

[patters]

I got wifi working without using a third-party PE builder and wrote it up on my blog. My batch script uses the normal WAIK tools and will build both x86 and x64 versions.
http://pcloadletter....g-wifi-support/

This post has been edited by patters: 04 December 2011 - 08:49 AM