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Michael Stum
Asked: 2016-10-18 10:14:01 +0800 CST

How do I force a driver for an unknown device from the command line?

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I have a Mac Pro on which I want to install Server Core (2012 R2 or 2016). The problem is that the Ethernet drivers need to be forced.

On a GUI System, I'd open device manager, select "Update Driver", "Browse my computer", "Let me pick" and then choose the Intel 82574L network adapter, and everything works fine.

Can I do this from the command line? I've seen a bunch of results about using pnputil to add the driver to the driver store, but that doesn't seem to apply - the driver is already part of windows (E1Q62x64.inf on Windows 2016), it just doesn't get automatically detected even though the device id matches (0x8060 Vendor, 0x10F6 Device).

Here's the steps I do on a GUI:

  1. Device Manager, Other devices, Ethernet controller, Update Driver enter image description here

  2. Browse my computer, Let me pick, select "Network adapters" enter image description here

  3. Select the Intel 82574L Network card enter image description here

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