Overflow- thanks for clearing that up but the method you gave is of no use to me as I'm only enquiring if its possible to do everything you just said but purely via the command prompt, no point n' click allowed. The right click install was just an aside, what I'm really interested in is how to get rundll32 or whatever working properly.
Maybe my problem was that I didn't remove the existing driver for the ethernet card first? We already have mostly working nic drivers on all the machines its just that the currently installed driver doesn't support wakeonlan power-on but the latest (*.2004) one does so lots of machines need to be upgraded in the most efficient manner possible. I hoped to do this by scripting wiith beyondexec, rundll32 and the inf/sys files and whatever other tools I may require
which contained the very latest driver (the .2004 one) with an .inf, a .sys , a .bmp and something else. I know that normally you'd install .inf files through the Add Harware wizard but I've also heard you are supposed to be able to install these is you are logged in as admin and right click on the .inf and choose install or use the command rundll32 on the .inf. Neither of these methods work with the ADMtek 983 driver, for the latest version and earlier versions.
Driverpacks are just what every frustrated win sysadmin needs and so now I need to learn the best wayto utilise driverpacks, on single machine DVD installs and network multicasts for the networks I help maintain.