another thing you can do is use the pxe boot instead of floppy, this works fine with broadcom cards that do not work with the floppy. On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Sanabaghatta, Chandra wrote: > I have been able to create two seperate initrd's to use bcm5700 and other to > use e1000 drivers. I used the 7.3 initrd to do this. > > u need take apart the initrd and remove unwanted drivers. Make sure u update > pcitable. Its important. U can also cheat the system by hacking the > pcitable. for example when creating initrd with e1000 driver ever after > putting the right driver in to image it still recognized the intel pro 1000 > as eepro100. so in pcitable i said use e1000 driver even if its eepro100. > > The downside to above method is that we need different initrd's for > different systems > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Brown [mailto:ebrown@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 5:05 PM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Broadcom drivers for kickstart > > > I'm trying to accomplish a similiar thing, but for an Intel PRO/1000. I > found some instructions at: > http://www.linuxworks.com.au/RS-kickstart.html > for taking apart the initrd image and substituting other drivers for the > included ones. Can't say that I've got it to work, yet... > > -Ed > > > > > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:49, Simper, Brian D wrote: > > > > I am trying to do a kickstart installation on HP Proliant servers. > > Unfortunately, they use Broadcom network cards that do not work > >natively with kickstart. How do you patch the kickstart disk to > >respond to a Broadcom card, or any other non-supported NIC? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Robin Mordasiewicz 416-207-7012 UNIX Administrator Primus Canada
