RH 7.1's bootnet.img doesn't have support for the tlan driver so I am
attempting to get the boot floppy to find my device and install the
tlan driver so I can complete my network install. It works flawlessly
for RH 6.2.
I have added the driver to the initrd.img under modules after mounting
using loopback the bootnet.img and the initrd.img. This was an arduous
task as there are a number of steps involved. The tlan.o driver I
used came from the 7.1 distribution under RedHat/base/stage2.img (after
mounting that with the loopback option). Then I inserted a few lines
in modules-info for the tlan and editted the pcitable file adding
lines pertaining to tlan that I found in stage2.img.
Here are those modifications:
module-info:
tlan
eth
"ThunderLAN"
pcitable:
0x0e11 0xae32 "tlan" "Compaq|Netelligent 10/100"
0x0e11 0xae34 "tlan" "Compaq|Netelligent 10"
0x0e11 0xae35 "tlan" "Compaq|Integrated NetFlex-3/P"
0x0e11 0xae40 "tlan" "Compaq|Netelligent 10/100 Dual"
0x0e11 0xae43 "tlan" "Compaq|ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100"
0x0e11 0xb011 "tlan" "Compaq|Integrated Netelligent 10/100"
0x0e11 0xb012 "tlan" "Compaq|Netelligent 10 T/2"
0x0e11 0xb030 "tlan" "Compaq|Netelligent WS 5100"
0x0e11 0xf130 "tlan" "Compaq|NetFlex-3/P ThunderLAN 1.0"
0x0e11 0xf150 "tlan" "Compaq|NetFlex-3/P ThunderLAN 2.3"
I feel I am very close but it is still not working. During the boot
process I see the following messages after doing an F3:
* probing buses
* finished bus probing
* found suggestion of tlan
* found tlan device
* found devices justProbe is 0
* ging to insmod tlan.o (path is NULL)
at this point the install displays the window suggesting I select a
network card.
Any idea what could be wrong? Am I missing a module dependency. There
weren't any dependencies for tlan in stage2.img. Does anaconda look for
the module anywhere else?
Thanks very much for your help.
--patty
