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Wi-fi Support on either Winre.wim or winpe.wim

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  • 04/06/2016

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016 11:56 AM

Dear all,

I'm Raul, and first off all if I'm in the wrong question sorry about that, please redirect me to the right place.

My question is complicated to explain.

Basically I need to be able to connect to a wireless network via Winpe. I've searched the web and have found some topics but no easy way to do (most of them say it's not possible for wimpe support on wifi).

yet i know that winre.wim has wifi support component installed. i also watched  an early presentation of W10 in MSFT Build (don't remember witch one) and the idea was that would be possible to restore, reinstall or preform a baremetal restore via internet, i believe with the use of a USB with winre. but then never mentioned on another occasion.

And since the majority of windows system nowadays don't have Ethernet port, and the use of a usb-lan connector is not so common the use of wifi is more than evident. 

I've done some testing:

so far:

  • add wifi driver on winre via Dism
  • boot winpe with winre.wim as boot.wim.
  • start WlanSvc
  • wpeutil initializenetwork
  • import wifi profile.xml form another machine
  • netsh wlan connect wifi profile.xml
  • when i execute the netsh wlan show interfaces the "state" is always associating and for the moment i'm stuck where. Is there any service or an optional component missing from the boot.wim?

in a desperation i've add all the optional components for winpe to the winre.wim but still no luck.
Does anyone have any ideas?

thanks

All replies (5)

Thursday, April 14, 2016 7:47 AM ✅Answered

Hi Raul,

Apologize to say that currently I have no idea about that.

The issue you mentioned might be caused by the time which the client negotiating with the Access Point, if it is available to capture traffics through the AP, then we may take a further investigation on that.

By the way, have you checked the aritcle already?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929847

Regards

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Thursday, April 7, 2016 7:57 AM

Raul,

WinRE added the WIFI support, for WinPE, there is no change, in Windows 10.

See:

WinPE: Add packages (Optional Components Reference)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn938382%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Used by Windows RE for recovery scenarios. New in Windows 10.

Although this package has en-US in the file description, it is not language-specific, and does not need to be added or removed when changing the available languages.

For What is new in WinPE, see:

What's New in Windows PE

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn938350(v=vs.85).aspx

On the network part, there is no change, currently.

Adding some new reference:

Adding Support for 802.1x to WinPE

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/deploymentguys/2010/03/02/adding-support-for-802-1x-to-winpe/

Regards

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Friday, April 8, 2016 7:21 AM

Can you please tell me the steps to "enable" a successful wifi conection  win wimre.wim? what services i need to initialize/ or components to install, in order to maintain a working wifi link? can you explain what i'm missing?

thanks

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 5:16 AM

Hi Raul,

WinPE since 4.0 could add additional components to enable 802.X, see the article below:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn938382(v=vs.85).aspx

WinPE-Dot3Svc

Adds support for the IEEE 802.X authentication protocol on wired networks. For more info, see WinPE Network Drivers: Initializing and adding drivers.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016 4:30 PM

Hi Machel,

i've started the Dot3Svc but the state of the wifi connection is always on "associating". Do you know whats missing?