On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 09:39 +0100, Alex TOURNIER wrote:
> I have a serious problem with a RHEL4 KS installation.
> My KS server works well because I can perform installation with no
> problems on various hardware plaforms.
> However the latest hardware platform I was delivered (ie Siemens Celsius
> R630) the installation fails.
> I am almost sure that the problem is with the NIC (Broadcom NetXtreme
> DCM 5751 Gigabit ), it looks like the NIC is somehow turned off (even
> if enabled in the BIOS) , or not working at the right speed and thus
> the DHCP server is not able to assign the IP. On the DHCP server nothing
> appears in the log file (as if there was no communication at all). I
> boot the client from a CD (made with the images available on the 1st
> CD of RHEL 4 distrib)....I also tried to make another CD including the
> driver from BROADCOM (bcm5700.ko instead of tg3.ho), but no success. If
> I disable the Broadcom NIC, and insert a second NIC the KS install works
> fine using this second NIC!!!!
>
> I would be very happy of any advice that could help me in solving the
> problem, I have many of these PC to be installed, and I need disperatly
> a KS solution...
> Thank you in advance.
Alex,
We have the HP XW4300 workstation which has BCM5752. I don't know if
your issue is the same as ours, but only RHEL 3 U6 and RHEL 4 U2 work.
You don't mention which update of RHEL 4 you are kickstarting. Is it
U2? If not, please try U2 as it contains an updated tg3 driver for the
newest Broadcom chipsets.
/Brian/
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