The status of the connection is "Network cable unplugged"

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We do currently evaluating Windows 8/8.1. Each Windows 8 tablet should be delivered to the users with a USB 3.0 docking station. We are currently evaluating Toshiba Dynadock and faced the following problems with your drivers:

We are using an WinPE 4.0 flash drive to install Windows 8 with the "DisplayLink Corp. Net dlcdcncm6.inf 7.2.47462.0" Driver integrated.
After the WinPE Phase, when Windows 8 starts the first time, a network connection is not available, JoinDomain fails and the installation is aborted. The status of the connection is "Network cable unplugged" (Control Panel -->m Network Connections) although the cable is plugged in. If you now unplug the cable and then plug it in the status changes to "available" (DisplayLink 7.2M1 - Ndis6.2.Wlk driver is used).

Any suggestion how to solve these problems are appreciated.

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The network drivers does not work if the firmware is not compatible with the driver version. We first have to update the firmware on the Toshiba Dynadock on a Windows PC . Then we are able to do a bare metal installation with the USB flash drive and the Toshiba Dynadock. This is a big disadvantage for Enterprise deployments.

In our opinion a solution would be to have a WinPE driver that works also with older firmware versions (firmware update could be done later when Window 8 is installed) or to have an Firmware Update Tool that runs on WinPE 64-bit.