hello: is USB headset can work without install audio driver? how? thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McBride" To: "Blind sysadmins list" Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:52 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Win 7; installing drivers with no audio Ben, get a USB headset, put on narrator, & go. On 9/19/10, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:

Hey all.

I've just done a windows 7 professional install and the audio drivers haven't been found. A sighted person walked me through the mini setup where you choos the computer name and set up a user account, but they couldn't stay long enough to install any drivers.

On xp, this is easy enough since you can just type the full path in run and more or less keep on hitting enter until you here sounds or your machine reboots. However, I'm guessing that uac is going to thro a spanner in the works here since I'm pretty sure that the default option on the uac window isn't going to be yes.

To be honest, I'm not even sure I'm in run after pressing windows + r; I typed some random letters to try and make a beep sound which didn't work; I also tried to go into cmd and type control g which is also meant to generate a beep but both these tests failed. Having said this, I was able to type the shutdown command in what I thought was the run box and it shut down, so perhaps things aren't as bad as they seem.

Does anyone have any experience installing drivers in this situation? Since you're meant to install chipset before audio I'd be looking at 1 install with no feedback plus half of another one, assuming that sound starts to work half way through the install as it does with some xp drivers. I'm just stabbing in the dark here, but if I assume that ethernet has been found, would I be able to put this on my network and use psexec to install the drivers that way? This didn't work in xp since the admin shares aren't enabled by default, but perhaps it's different for 7?

Any thoughts what so ever are welcome. Cheers, Ben.

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I was under the impression that even if windows did have a driver for the headset, installing it would prompt uac to open which would be an issue since I don't know the key sequence. At any rate, it's not an issue anymore, but if anyone has any tips, I'd still be interested in hearing them. I think I'm going to spend tonight working on a good unattended 7 install, although I was slightly disappointed to find that there aren't any driverpacks for windows 7 as of yet. On 21/09/2010, Ibraam Wahib wrote:

hello: is USB headset can work without install audio driver? how? thanks

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McBride" To: "Blind sysadmins list" Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:52 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Win 7; installing drivers with no audio

Ben, get a USB headset, put on narrator, & go.

On 9/19/10, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:

...

Hey all.

I've just done a windows 7 professional install and the audio drivers haven't been found. A sighted person walked me through the mini setup where you choos the computer name and set up a user account, but they couldn't stay long enough to install any drivers.

On xp, this is easy enough since you can just type the full path in run and more or less keep on hitting enter until you here sounds or your machine reboots. However, I'm guessing that uac is going to thro a spanner in the works here since I'm pretty sure that the default option on the uac window isn't going to be yes.

To be honest, I'm not even sure I'm in run after pressing windows + r; I typed some random letters to try and make a beep sound which didn't work; I also tried to go into cmd and type control g which is also meant to generate a beep but both these tests failed. Having said this, I was able to type the shutdown command in what I thought was the run box and it shut down, so perhaps things aren't as bad as they seem.

Does anyone have any experience installing drivers in this situation? Since you're meant to install chipset before audio I'd be looking at 1 install with no feedback plus half of another one, assuming that sound starts to work half way through the install as it does with some xp drivers. I'm just stabbing in the dark here, but if I assume that ethernet has been found, would I be able to put this on my network and use psexec to install the drivers that way? This didn't work in xp since the admin shares aren't enabled by default, but perhaps it's different for 7?

Any thoughts what so ever are welcome. Cheers, Ben.

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Assuming it is a relatively standard piece of hardware, Jackie's is on point. If the UAC prompt comes up and you are logged in as an administrator, alt+Y will select Yes. Matt On Tue, September 21, 2010 14:01, Jackie McBride wrote:

Ben, When I installed win7 on a friend's machine, I just had the headset plugged in & when the welcome screen came up, I started narrator & away we went.

On 9/21/10, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:

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I was under the impression that even if windows did have a driver for the headset, installing it would prompt uac to open which would be an issue since I don't know the key sequence.

At any rate, it's not an issue anymore, but if anyone has any tips, I'd still be interested in hearing them. I think I'm going to spend tonight working on a good unattended 7 install, although I was slightly disappointed to find that there aren't any driverpacks for windows 7 as of yet.

On 21/09/2010, Ibraam Wahib wrote:

...

hello: is USB headset can work without install audio driver? how? thanks

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McBride" To: "Blind sysadmins list" Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:52 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Win 7; installing drivers with no audio

Ben, get a USB headset, put on narrator, & go.

On 9/19/10, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:

...

Hey all.

I've just done a windows 7 professional install and the audio drivers haven't been found. A sighted person walked me through the mini setup where you choos the computer name and set up a user account, but they couldn't stay long enough to install any drivers.

On xp, this is easy enough since you can just type the full path in run and more or less keep on hitting enter until you here sounds or your machine reboots. However, I'm guessing that uac is going to thro a spanner in the works here since I'm pretty sure that the default option on the uac window isn't going to be yes.

To be honest, I'm not even sure I'm in run after pressing windows + r; I typed some random letters to try and make a beep sound which didn't work; I also tried to go into cmd and type control g which is also meant to generate a beep but both these tests failed. Having said this, I was able to type the shutdown command in what I thought was the run box and it shut down, so perhaps things aren't as bad as they seem.

Does anyone have any experience installing drivers in this situation? Since you're meant to install chipset before audio I'd be looking at 1 install with no feedback plus half of another one, assuming that sound starts to work half way through the install as it does with some xp drivers. I'm just stabbing in the dark here, but if I assume that ethernet has been found, would I be able to put this on my network and use psexec to install the drivers that way? This didn't work in xp since the admin shares aren't enabled by default, but perhaps it's different for 7?

Any thoughts what so ever are welcome. Cheers, Ben.

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