Allied Telesis AT-2701FXA/SC Performing the Silent Installation, Installing the Driver Silently

AT-2701 Series Fast Ethernet Adapter Installation Guide

Performing the Silent Installation

Installing the Driver Silently

To simplify the driver installation process, you may perform a silent installation when installing driver software for the AT-2701 series adapters. The silent installation is a method of installing software in the silent mode without constant interactions by suppressing dialog boxes.

Note

You can apply the silent installation method only to Microsoft certified drivers. The drivers that Allied Telesis provides for the AT- 2701 series adapters are all Microsoft certified.

Use a command line utility called Driver package Installer (DPInst) for the silent installation. DPInst is included in the Windows Developer Kit (WDK) provided by Microsoft. You can obtain the latest DPInst by downloading and installing the latest WDK from the Microsoft website.

To install the driver silently, perform the following instructions:

1.Create a folder in your Windows system.

2.Download driver software for the AT-2701 series adapter.

See “Downloading the Driver Software for Windows” on page 35.

3.Place the driver files that you downloaded into the folder that you created in step 1.

The folder should include the following driver files:

–.sys

–.inf

–.cat

4.Download the latest WDK to obtain the dpinst utility. Consult Microsoft websites to download the WDK.

5.Place the dpinst.exe and its supporting files in the same folder where you placed the driver files.

You must place the 64-bit dpinst utility if your operating system is the 64-bit version. Place the 32-bit for dpinst utility for the 32-bit version operating system.

6.Open a command prompt window with administrator privileges.

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