If you have your PC hooked up to your router, that should be enough
"network" for setup to produce the domain/workgroup selection screen, if, in
fact, that's the requirement. You don't have to be connected to the internet
for that. If you have to download NIC drivers for Vista to recognize your
NIC, well, then, yah, you're not going to see network config info in setup
because Vista doesn't recognize your NIC. I assume that's what you mean by
network drivers. Yea or nay?
Lang
That is a Yay!
Excluding the "Gameport", I had to "sneakernet" a number of drivers
for my Shuttle AN35N-Ultra.
I use a spare Hub with a single connection to "bring up" /incorrectly/
default(ed) PC's.
The more recent batch of Netgear DSL routers made me even connect the
WAN side before their STUPID wizard would let me change settings
(older models let you bypass the wizard).
I wanted to use it solely as a ROUTER with NO DHCP on the LAN side,
and to isolate one LAN from another (that already had a DSL router
with DHCP server, that was not allowed on this subnet).
I did know what I was doing, and achieved the desired result.
Note to developers: Advise, remind as needed, but don't prevent a
manual configuration. Obviously I could not automatically discover
"DSL Type" with no connection to the WAN side.
"No WAN cable detected. Automatic Discovery disabled. Correct cable
connection and retry or select manual configuration mode"