Performing The Silent Installation; Installing The Driver Silently - Allied Telesis 2914 Series Installation And User Manual

2914 Series Fiber Network Adapters with WoL Installation and User's Guide

Performing the Silent Installation

Installing the
Driver Silently
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To simplify the driver installation process, you may perform a silent
installation when installing driver software for the AT-2914 network
adapter card entries. 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-
2914 network 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-2914 network adapter.
See "Downloading the Driver Software" on page 39.
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 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.