VIA Rhine NDIS Driver FOR NORTON GHOST

Question

Hi,
I've got MS KT4AV mobo with integrated LAN (driver is VIA Rhine II Fast ethernet).
I have all the drivers on driver CD and you can download them from numerous sites but it's very hard to get the NDIS / DOS driver.
I need to create disc to boot up norton ghost 2003 to work peer to peer.
I've used numerous other LAN cards and drivers and there NDIS2 drivers have always contained an oemsetup file for with setup information.
All the VIA drivers I've found have no NDIS2 folder and the oemsetup file is huge and is not recognised by ghost when i try to setup a NDIS2 bootable disc.
Below is the setup info i had in with my previous SMC network card NDIS2 driver (which worked fine), but with the VIA Rhine driver the information is about 20 pages long and isn't recognised by norton (and it's not in a NDIS file anyway, it just comes with all the driver files).
SMC1255="SMC EZ Card 10/100 (SMC1255TX)",0,ndis,ethernet,real,SMC1255,SMC1255_nif
; Install Sections
[SMC1255]
devdir=?:SMC1255.dos
device=SMC1255.dos,@devdir\SMC1255.dos
[SMC1255_nif]
drivername=SMC1255$
param=SLOT,"Slot number",int,"1,4,1",1
param=MEDIA,"Media Type",text,"UTP,UTP_FD,UTP_100,UTP_100FD,AUTODETECT","AUTODETECT"
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the correct commands so wanted norton ghost to setup the disc (it always has before).
I found a VIA Rhine NDIS2 drive at the link below but this has no oemsetup file and when i just load the DOS file it doesn't work.
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
Any ides would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rob

Answer 1

well..i still haven't solved it yet, coz Ghost doesn;t "like" the DOS driver...I e-mailed nvidia as well but its becoming a ping-pong match.
Reply from nvidia:
Quote
Hello,
This support website is designed to support NVIDIA direct sales products, such as the NVIDIA DualTV tuner card
and the NVIDIA PureVideo DVD decoder, and also pre-sales questions about NVIDIA technology.
NVIDIA is a market leader in graphics and digital media processors. NVIDIA does NOT build graphics cards,
motherboards or PCs. While our partners and customers all choose NVIDIA's technology as a core component for
their solutions, they do implement them differently and therefore it is not possible for NVIDIA to directly support their products.
To obtain support, please contact the appropriate manufacturer or vendor of your product. For your convenience,
a partial list of our partners and customers can be found here. http://www.nvidia.com/page/partner_support.html
Best regards,
NVIDIA
My question to them:
I have already downloaded the NDIS.zip as directed by your site to use with Norton Ghost 2003.
There are only 2 DOS files:
NVNDIS2.DOS & NDIS.DOS
I tried building the Ghost Network Boot Disk with each of the DOS files & each time I ger this error:
ERROR: 33 Unable to bind.
I let the Ghost Wizard do the disk build tho' - please see attached build sheet.
Client:   Norton Ghost
Destination:   Floppy Drive A:
Network Driver:
Template:   NVIDIA nForce 4
Driver:   NVNDIS2.DOS
Driver Type:   NDIS2 Driver
Configuration Files:
AUTOEXEC.BAT:
@echo off
SET TZ=GHO-08:00
prompt $p$g
\net\netbind.com
MOUSE.COM
echo Loading...
CD GHOST
GHOST.EXE
CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=\net\protman.dos /I:\net
DEVICE=\net\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\NVNDIS2.DOS
LASTDRIVE = Z
PROTOCOL.INI:
[protman]
drivername=PROTMAN$
[pktdrv]
drivername=PKTDRV$
bindings=nic
intvec=0x60
chainvec=0x66
[nic]
drivername = UNDIS$