I'm not an expert on this, but I faced a similar issue with getting a tape drive to work, whereby the driver refused to load at startup, for some reason. I eventually had to manually load the driver with the modprobe command, and then had to use mkinitrd to create a new /boot/initrd-x.x.xx-x.x.x.Elsmp.img initial ramdisk image. http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/mkinitrd8.html You could maybe investigate that avenue, although my understanding was that this is really for IDE, SCSI, RAID devices, and not as such for network adapters, but I may be wrong. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Cooper Sent: 07 November 2007 04:03 To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: How do I add Vendor and Device ID's to the kernel on boot Hello, I just recently got a nice Dell Inspiron 1420 and I'm loading RHEL5 Client (workstation), I knew it wouldn't work straight out of the box, but I wanted to get it running by hand for the experience of compiling drivers etc. I've dug around (and learned a lot) but I'm now at the point that I have the new (unknown device/vendor ID's) which should be using my newly compiled tg3 drivers in /lib/modules..... I've tried using insmod and modprobe etc. I don't know how to tell the system to use them upon boot. It's a broadcom nic vendor 0x14e4 device 0x1713. Is there a way to insert this info in grub (as an "append" command to the initrd) and tell it to load the needed driver when it see's that string? Am I heading in the right direction? Thank you for any help. PS. I know I could just go with Fedora (or even load the new 8 when it comes out) but then I wouldn't learn how to do this. :) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
