Netsh usage in WinPE environment - The supplied kernel information is invalid

Question

Hi,

we're trying to configure network inside a WinPE environment and in particular after injecting successfully via netsh the network configuration we need to restart network adapters, in order to enable the vlan id that we set.

The problem is that we are getting a generic error:

"The Supplied kernel information version is invalid"

The command we've issued to get this error is

netsh interface set interface "Nic name" DISABLED

all the other netsh commands are working correctly, we can even successfully rename the network interface, the only commands that are not working are enable/disable, which unfortunately are the ones that we need.

What could be causing this issue? How can we troubleshoot and solve this or is there any alternative method to disable/re-enable a nic interface in a preboot environment ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello.

Based on the information you have provided, I recommend that you try to run the following command to see if it succeeds:

netsh interface set interface "Nic name" admin=enable

Best Regards

ZUnhui

Answer 2

Hello,

thanks for the suggestion, I think those are exactly the commands that we are trying to use, but without luck:

command and nic name seems to be correct, as we can successfully rename the nic for example.

Any suggestion about how to troubleshoot this? Error seems to be pretty generic.

Thanks

Answer 3

Hello,

Thanks for your reply. Based on the information you provided, I suspect that this may be a problem with the WMI repository. I suggest that you open cmd as an administrator and run the following command:

winmgmt /verifyrepository

If the result returned shows "WMI repository is inconsistent"

Run the following command to reset the WMI repository:

winmgmt /resetrepository

Best Regards

Zunhui