Thanks for the suggestion. I couldn't make it work. It seems the WHS CD has a driver it thinks is the right one and won't install the one I loaded on to the USB stick.
I did find another solution on the "We Got Served" website. I pass it along in case it helps someone else.
"Ok so after spending all night trying to figure out why my hp laptop, connected over ethernet, would not connect: it was a driver issue. I stumbled upon a way to force the use of the proper driver for my network card.
Please bear with me as this is my first post ever, and after searching the internet for hours without any solutions, I thought I might share a possible solution at least for some people.
These instructions assume that you have an hp computer that you are trying to restore and that the SwSetup folder is available (if your computer's hd is wiped, you cant get to it, obviously, and I'm not sure where the drivers would be located on another brand of computer).
1). First, when you get to the screen that says "Detect Hardware" and shows the "intstall drivers..." button, click on the help link (the blue letters that says, "Where can I find drivers for my hardware?")
2). When the help window comes up, right-click on the right window and select "view source." By doing this, notepad will come up; it is through this program that you can now explore the folders and install the drivers that are already on the partition.
3). Go to file-> open-> then click on the "computer" button on the right.
4). Navigate to the Boot (X:) drive, the drive where the os on the cd is running and navigate to the following folder from there:
X:\Windows\System32
5). Make sure the "files of type" drop down is set to "all files" so that you can see the .exe files
6). Right-click on "taskmgr" and click "open"
7). When you click on the "networking" tab, you'll see that it says "No active network adapter found" because none are installed yet.
8). Now mininize the taskmanager window and navigate to C:\SwSetup\Network
This is the folder where hp stores all the drivers needed for the computer
9). Right-click on the "setup" file and click open this will allow you to install the network drivers, just follow the installation window's instructions.
10). After the InstallShield Wizard is complete and you pressed "finish," go back to the taskmanager window that you minimized to the bottom of the screen. You'll see that the "network" tab shows that the computer is now connected to the LAN.
11). Now close all the other windows, etc except for the original "detect Hardware" window and click "continue"
You should now be able to connect to your server and restore the computer. "
In my case I had the original motherboard driver CD and just copy the driver install package to the USB stick. At step 8 I navigated to the USB stick, selected the self install package, the package installed, followed steps 9, 10, and 11...everything worked. Just two notes, be sure to follow step 5...and open taskmgr and any installer files by right clicking on the file name and selecting open. When I used File->Open from the notepad menu bar it tried to open it as a text file.
Hope this helps someone.
Many thanks to the person who posted this on "We Got Served..."
