Iain
Once DHCP fails, if I try gain it fails again..it does not work ...I use
a CISCO switch CATALYST 4503.
I did try also with RHEL 4 update 2 as adives by Brian, but the
behaviour is the same.
It works if I insert a 3COM 3C905CX into the host...but it is just a
test...i want to use the Broadcom NIC as it's integrated on the mother
board and I have a bunch of those to be installed.
Do you think that using a simple Hub instead of a Switch could help?
Cheers,
Alex.
Brian Long wrote:
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 have seen a similar issue and i believe that this has been discussed
before. However, it goes something like this
Once booted, the server will then ask for a DHCP IP address. This has
the side effect of resetting the network card and consequently the
port on the switch. The DHCP request can time out here as the time
that the NIC and the switch take to re-negotiate the link.
This may or may not be your issue; i would hazard a guess it is
because it does seem to be linked to the Broadcom chipset you
describe. Once DHCP fails, do you try again? Does this work the second
time? What switch hardware are you using?
Cheers
Iain
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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