Our company has selected a consumer brand of laptops that does not have NIC's!  So we have bought a dongle and I am tasked with figuring out how to boot to a USB stick, get network connectivity and capture/deploy images with our WDS server.  Here is where I am having issues.  I have a USB boot disk, this will boot the capture image screen however I am not getting any network connectivity.  I have created a boot disk that does pull an IP so I know I can do this.  I have then injected the nic driver into my boot.wim file and the machine boots to the capture screen but does not pull an ip.  I have confirmed the WIM has the nic driver.  Suggestions?  WDS is 2k8r2 and we are deploying Windows 8.1.

To update on my testing.  If I create a WinPE disk with the NIC I am able to pull and IP.  After adding the setup packages WinPE-Setup and WinPE-Setup-Client, my NIC no longer works.  I ran get-drivers and it does show the NIC driver as installed.  IPCONFIG does not even show media disconnected.  

Hi,

Above all, can you confirm that the dongle (I assume it is a USB wireless network card) is a PXE capable device? 

And with only 1 dongle, you will need to do the deployment on each laptop - how about just burn your WDS image onto a DVD disk and use the disk to do the installation instead of using network?