Server Core experts?

Django x2 · 9 Jan 2010 at 23:55

This might seem like an odd request but I need some help and google turns up "FAIL".

I am running 2008 R2 Server Core on a desktop purely so I can hyper V loads of VMs. I need to enable the wireless feature but I can't figure out how to do it.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks

theheyes · 10 Jan 2010 at 12:56

In the server management console you need to go into "add features" and enable the Wireless LAN service. I've only used vanilla 2008 though so I'm not 100% sure you'll be able to do this in server core.

Burnsy2023 · 10 Jan 2010 at 13:10

theheyes said:
In the server management console you need to go into "add features" and enable the Wireless LAN service. I've only used vanilla 2008 though so I'm not 100% sure you'll be able to do this in server core.

Server Core doesn't have a GUI so that would be hard.

TBH, I'm not sure if this is possible. What do you want to do exactly?

theheyes · 10 Jan 2010 at 13:43

Burnsy2023 said:
Server Core doesn't have a GUI so that would be hard.

Yeah that might be a slight stumbling block actually.

Django x2 · 10 Jan 2010 at 15:11

Sorry,it might help if I was more exact. I'm doing this on a laptop, not desktop.

I was able to enable the WLAN in Server 2008 R2 easily enough using the add features command, but I do need to do this with Server Core too.

Purely because, server core has such a small disk and memory footprint that I can then run multiple VMs and they can all use the wireless adapter.