Hello,
In a previous thread, Jeff Busch pointed that:
>> put this in your ks.cfg before your network line:
>> device ethernet eepro100 --opts "options=0x30,0x30"
Are there any other ways to do this? The reason I ask is as follows:
I have a slew (read: several hundred) HP DL{360|380|580} boxes with Intel
and Broadcom NICs. For historical reasons, all switch ports are pinned to
100/fd. Our kickstart environment gets the ks.cfg location from dhcp, and
the ks.cfg file comes from nfs at the location pointed to by dhcp.
This presents an interesting problem: I can't fully rely on Jeff's solution
because I need to set the interface _before_ I can get to ks.cfg :-P How is
it then that you pass options to module drivers when you're booting from the
floppy? My first inclination was to add something like this to module-info:
bcm5700
eth
"Broadcom BCM5700 10/100/1000 ethernet adapter"
auto_speed "Autonegotiation on/off" "[01]" "0"
line_speed "Line speed" "[01]+" "100"
full_duplex "Link duplexity" "[01]" "1"
According to module-info:
<default> is a default value. This should not be provided unless it is
almost always the correct value, and will not, say, hang a user's computer
if it is wrong
Yet it makes no difference on how the module gets loaded. I tried adding
it to module-info on 'stage2', with no results either. I decided to get
creative and added a modules.conf file with
options bcm5700 auto_speed=0 line_speed=100 full_duplex=1
and still no love (actually, the addition of this to stage2 seems to
now lock the box 8-O).
Any pointers? I've been reading through the list and have not been able to
find much.
TIA.
-G
