Thanks for the advice Brad and Andrew. It certainly appears that the system is not completely identifying the Intel Gigabit NIC during install. I followed your suggestion Brad, and added the extra device entries to the pcitable file found in the modules directory of stage2.img. In desperation I even added the extra device entries to the pcitable file in the modules directory of the hdstg1.img file. It is worth noting that I took care to correctly format the pcitable file with tabs (^I) and not spaces. However this appears to have not had any effect as the installer still does not identify the device. If I switch to VT2 during the final stage of the install and execute kudzu as follows: /mnt/sysimage/usr/sbin/kudzu -p the Intel Gigabit NIC may be found in the result. The output from kudzu contains the following lines: desc: "Intel Corp.| unknown device 8086:1010" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 1010 subVendorId: 8086 subDeviceId: 1011 I imagine that the device described above (Intel Gigabit NIC) should have been successfully identified in accord with the changes that I made to the pcitable file. However this does not seem to be the case, at least not according to kudzu. I have located another pcitable file within the stage2.img and hdstg1.img files under the usr/share/hwdata/ directory which I intend to update as you suggested. I will also update the e1000.o module in the stage2.img file to version 4.4.19. Can anyone suggest why it appears that the Intel Gigabit NIC is not being identified during install? Do I need to update pcitable elsewhere? Regards, Matthew Richards Email: matthew.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >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_s >ingle/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 >>
