Intel PROSet Custom MSI Installation

TheMagic89 Mar 27, 2012 9:27 AM

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Before I start, can I thank Intel for finally taking out the My Wifi feature and 100's of needless folders from the enterprise installations! Much appreciated.

Now to my query...

Just downloaded Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Software 14.3.1 for my HP laptops (with 5300 AGN network cards) and I am wanting to create a custom MSI installation so I can deploy this to our customers silently and remotely.

From a quick Google, I have found some properties from the version 13 installation, which are added as part of the command line by using "ADDLOCAL=". Can anyone help me match these up to what is in the properties/features table within the MSI?

Properties for version 13:

WIFI_Driver

WIFI_Software

WIFI_UI

WIFI_PLC

WIFI_Admin_Toolkit

WIFI_Troubleshooter

Features for version 14.3.1:

Intel(R) WiFi Link Driver

Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless for Bluetooth(R) 3.0 + High Speed

Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software

Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Connection Utility

Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Enterprise Software

How would I get a transform file to select what I want to install? Would I add the properties mentioned above into the properties table and set them to true or false depending on my requirements?

Would I ammend the features table? That has all these settings mentioned above with either level values of "1" or "101" assigned.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

1. Re: Intel PROSet Custom MSI Installation

TheMagic89 Mar 28, 2012 6:40 AM (in response to TheMagic89)

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I've managed to solve it myself, no real documentation anywhere on the net for this...

FYI, this is an extract of the feature table from Intel PROSet Wireless.msi:

Feature	Feature_Parent	Title	Description	Display	Level	Directory_	Attributes
WIFI_Custom_Help		Customized WiFi Applications Help	Customized WiFi Help	0	101	INSTALLDIR	8
WIFI_UI	WIFI_Software	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Connection Utility	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Graphical User Interface components.	9	1	INSTALLDIR	8
WIFI_Admin_Toolkit	WIFI_UI	Administrator Toolkit	Administrator Tool allows system administrators to create configuration packages.	13	101	INSTALLDIR	8
WIFI_Driver		Intel(R) WiFi Link Driver	Intel(R) WiFi Link Driver	5	1	INSTALLDIR	8
WIFI_Software		Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Infrastructure components.	7	1	INSTALLDIR	8
WIFI_MWT_Software	WIFI_Software	Intel(R) My WiFi Technology	The Intel(R) My WiFi Technology provides components for personal area network connectivity.	3	101	INSTALLDIR	8
WIFI_PROSet	WIFI_UI	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Enterprise Software	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Enterprise Software provides connectivity between PCs and wireless LAN.	11	101	INSTALLDIR	8
Common32	WIFI_Driver	DO NOT TRANSLATE		0	1	INSTALLDIR	24
WIFI_LegacyDriver32	WIFI_Driver	DO NOT TRANSLATE.		0	1	INSTALLDIR	24
LegacyDriverWin732	WIFI_LegacyDriver32	DO NOT TRANSLATE.		0	1	INSTALLDIR	8
WIFI_BTHS	WIFI_Driver	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless for Bluetooth(R) 3.0 + High Speed	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless for Bluetooth(R) 3.0 + High Speed	2	1	INSTALLDIR	8
WIFI_BTHS_x86	WIFI_BTHS	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless for Bluetooth(R) 3.0 + High Speed	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless for Bluetooth(R) 3.0 + High Speed	0	1	INSTALLDIR	24
WIFI_Default		NewFeature1		0	101	INSTALLDIR	8
WIFI_IPAN	WIFI_MWT_Software	Intel(R) My WiFi Utility	The Intel(R) My WiFi Utility provides user-interface (UI) components for operating your personal area network.	2	1	INSTALLDIR	8
WIFI_Help	WIFI_UI	Intel(R) WiFi Applications Help	Intel(R) WiFi Help	0	1	INSTALLDIR	24
WIN7_Driver32	WIFI_Driver	DO NOT TRANSLATE		0	1	INSTALLDIR	16

The key here is the Level column. If the value is 1, it is installed. If the value is 101, it is not installed.

To satisfy my needs, I changed the value of WIFI_PROSet to 1 so it installed the Enterprise software.

Here are the properties and what feature they relate to:

WIFI_Driver	Intel(R) WiFi Link Driver
WIFI_BTHS & WIFI_BTHS_x86	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless for Bluetooth(R) 3.0 + High Speed
WIFI_Software	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software
WIFI_UI	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Connection Utility
WIFI_PROSet	Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Enterprise Software
WIFI_Admin_Toolkit	Administrator Toolkit

Finally I created an install package for the profiles and settings using the administrator toolkit and deployed that after the install and voila!

Now I need to worry about our wifi infrastructure

TM89

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