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Are you on the same switch and subnet that you have
previously had good kickstarts from? This is USUALLY an error related to
portfast and Cisco switches. The fact that the install works fine using
the included driver when you build from CD adds to my suspicion that this is
network, not NIC related.
Chip From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Rylaarsdam Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 11:36 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RHEL3U8 pxe install: no driver for Broadcom NIC? Hi, I am having a NIC driver problem with pxe kickstart of
RHEL3 update 8 on some new hardware (Sun X2100 M2). The vendor documentation indicates that RHEL3 U7 or
later has compatible drivers for this server. When I install RHEL3 U8 from CD,
it works ok. When I attempt a pxe kickstart, it appears that the NIC driver is
not compatible. I get the “no network device in choosenetworkinterface” message.
I have been kickstarting RHEL3U3 for some time (on older hardware), so I think
in general that I have a working pxe kickstart server
environment. The NIC is a Broadcom device. The server vendor supplies
the Broadcom drivers, but not in binary form for RHEL3 U8. Based on my limited
understanding of how this works, I would need to build the tg3 driver from
source against the boot kernel (2.4.21-47.ELBOOT) if I want to use the Broadcom
NIC for a network install. Then I would need to add the new driver to the initrd
image, or make it available as a driver disk. When I look inside the initrd
image, the tg3.o driver is definitely not identical to the tg3.o driver from the
CD install, although that doesn’t prove that the tg3 driver available during
kickstart is incompatible with my hardware. Does it seem likely that RHEL3 U8 would contain a
compatible driver for the Broadcom NIC for the 2.4.21-47.EL kernel, but that the
driver for the boot kernel is not compatible? That seemed odd to me, so I
thought I would ask the question before proceeding with building the driver from
source, somewhat unfamiliar territory for me (especially building for boot
kernels). Or might there be another cause to this problem?
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