Hyper-V server 2008 NIC

[Raj]

Hi, I am getting "no active netwok adapters found" error after installing the
Hyper-v Server 2008 in the startup configuration window. How I can install my
NIC without the user interface?

Salutes,

Raj

[Aragon]

Do you have an active Network connection in the server?

[ZX900]

I am actually having the exact same issue. I am currently running a Dell
T610 with 4 network ports but none of them are available in the system. When
trying to add the network I receive "no active network adapters found".

This happens as soon as the server is booted or when I select option 3 in
the "Hyper-V Configuration". I am fairly certain the issue is that the
network adapter drivers are not included in this version of Windows. I am
wondering how you add drivers to Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 without an interface
since I can't connect to it remotely.

I have searched on the internet for hours and found a few posts but nothing
that will help with this scenario. I have also gone through all of the
published documentation.

[msnews.microsoft.com]

I had the same problem with a RTL8169S (Netgear GA311).

I used the cdrom from Netgear and from the command prompt ran setup.exe
for the device. Installed without a problem.

However ... my GA-E58X-UD4 onboard NIC still cannot be found as I cannot
load the motherboard chipset drivers. Their setups are looking for
oledlg.dll which is not found.

Anyone have an answer to this?

regards, andrew

Post by ZX900
I am actually having the exact same issue. I am currently running a Dell
T610 with 4 network ports but none of them are available in the system. When
trying to add the network I receive "no active network adapters found".
This happens as soon as the server is booted or when I select option 3 in
the "Hyper-V Configuration". I am fairly certain the issue is that the
network adapter drivers are not included in this version of Windows. I am
wondering how you add drivers to Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 without an interface
since I can't connect to it remotely.
I have searched on the internet for hours and found a few posts but nothing
that will help with this scenario. I have also gone through all of the
published documentation.

[nonono]

Hyper-V 2008 R2 RC fixed the problem.

regards, andrew

Post by msnews.microsoft.com
I had the same problem with a RTL8169S (Netgear GA311).
I used the cdrom from Netgear and from the command prompt ran setup.exe
for the device. Installed without a problem.
However ... my GA-E58X-UD4 onboard NIC still cannot be found as I cannot
load the motherboard chipset drivers. Their setups are looking for
oledlg.dll which is not found.
Anyone have an answer to this?
regards, andrew

Post by ZX900
I am actually having the exact same issue. I am currently running a
Dell T610 with 4 network ports but none of them are available in the
system. When trying to add the network I receive "no active network
adapters found".
This happens as soon as the server is booted or when I select option 3
in the "Hyper-V Configuration". I am fairly certain the issue is that
the network adapter drivers are not included in this version of
Windows. I am wondering how you add drivers to Microsoft Hyper-V 2008
without an interface since I can't connect to it remotely.
I have searched on the internet for hours and found a few posts but
nothing that will help with this scenario. I have also gone through
all of the published documentation.

[s***@ixion.co.za]

Downloaded Broadcom drivers from Dell site for server - Windows 2008 R2. Copied over and ran setup. This worked. However cannot install chipset and video driver yet.