[K12OSN] Zotac Zbox realtec network driver missing in Centos5.5

[Patrick Fleming]

First you need to figure out which driver/module the card needs. I have
done this by running a LiveCD and seeing which modules are loaded using
"lsmod", "lspci" and  "dmesg | grep -i eth" It's been a while so I don't
remember which is the best to use - and it may vary by machine.

Next you have to make sure the module is in your chroot, mine is located
at: /opt/ltsp/i386/lib/modules/2.6.17.8-ltsp-1/kernel/drivers/net/tg3.ko
(For the Tigrent gigbit adapter)

I have a MAC address specific file for the machine that requires this
driver:
/tftpboot/lts/pxe/pxelinux.cfg/01-00-1e-c9-36-5d-f5

prompt 0
label linux
 kernel vmlinuz.ltsp
 append root=/dev/ram0 rw initrd=initramfs.gz NIC=tg3


lts.conf contains these lines:

[00:1E:C9:36:5D:F5]
        MODULE_01 = tg3

I have had to do this for 2 machines so far and expect that to climb as
I replace older machines. Hopefully this is enough to give you a head
start. This was extremely frustrating when I first ran across it - it
took nearly a week to get it figured out.

Patrick

On 03/14/11 07:22, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> 
> Folks,
>  I cought Odin talking how great the Zotac boxes are, so I got me one of
> those babies in the AMD 64bit flavor. I installed DRBL on an AMD 64 bit
> pc running Centos 5.5 and proceeded to boot the box. Got PXE going, the
> system loads and then chokes on not recognised Realtec gigabit adapter.
> I'm sure that there is a driver for it in Centos 5.5, but how do I get it
> and what do I do to make it show up on the box?
> 
> Julius
> 
> 
> 
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