I did precisely this and the limiting factor were the lack of entries in the pcitable - I don't think I had to replace any of the modules, only update the pcitable to what the RH8.0 installer had: 0x8086 0x100e "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller" 0x8086 0x100f "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller" 0x8086 0x1010 "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller" 0x8086 0x1011 "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller" 0x8086 0x1012 "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller" That worked, but then I got some message about the magic number not being correct -- the install worked just fine, but that message was always present. Finally made the jump to 8.0 and have been fine since. The jump wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, something you may wish to consider. The biggest challenge was the new comps format, however that can be quickly reduced into total simplicity too. Try this: kudzu -p ... class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth driver: 3c59x desc: "3Com Corporation|3c980-TX 10/100baseTX NIC [Python-T]" vendorId: 10b7 deviceId: 9805 subVendorId: 10f1 subDeviceId: 2462 pciType: 1 ... Notice the vendorId and deviceId. 27 @myhost:/home/bdoctor > grep Python pcitable 0x10b7 0x9805 "3c59x" "3Com Corporation|3c980-TX 10/100baseTX NIC [Python-T]" Good luck! -brad > Hello list, > > I am trying to get a Red Hat 7.3 based installer to detect and configure an Intel PRO/1000 NIC during install (the e1000.o module). > > Currently the NIC is not detected during install, but is found by kudzu after the first reboot. > > Upon extracting module-info, modules.dep, modules.cgz and pcitable from stage2.img i have found that it appears as though support for the NIC is already included. I have drawn this conclusion after finding the following: > > In modules.cgz: > 2.4.18-3BOOT/e1000.o > > In module-info: > e1000 > eth > "Intel EtherExpress/1000 gigabit" > > In pcitable: > 0x8086 0x1000 "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82542 Gigabit Ethernet Controller" > **and six more lines mapping similar device IDs to the e1000 module. > > I do not understand why the Intel gigabit card is not supported during install. The only thing that I can think of is that the driver packed into modules.cgz does not work properly with the cards that I have tried. But even that sounds a little strange!?! > > Could anyone please tell me if my assumption about e1000 support already being included in the installer is correct? > > Could anyone please tell me how I may update the e1000 module in the installer? > > I have attempted a procedure similar to the one described at http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/ibiblio/docs/HOWTO//other-formats/html_single/KickStart-HOWTO.html#s9 with no success. Perhaps I got it worng. > > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Matthew Richards > > Email: matthew.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list > -- Brad Doctor, CISSP
