Intel EE1000 KS Network Connectivity Issue

[Andy Ciordia]

I've finally gotten all of the PE1750/2450/etcs out and PXE/KS/RHN'd all 
out, wonderful setup.  Now I'm heading to what I thought was shooting 
fish in a barrel by working on this array of PE750's we have.  All with 
onboard Intel gigabit cards.   As soon as I see it my mind has the image 
of this list having talks about what a pain they are.. well I indeed run 
into the wall of PXE knows the card is there and offloads it to the PXE 
server w/kernel, all load fine, but then once there the kernel/install 
does not communicate with the card.

I did a bit of diligence and for some reason I can't find recent 
communications on this problem, but I did dig up back in 2002 talks 
about this issue and people injecting the module into the vmlinuz-pxe 
file.  I was hoping that two years later this problem had met a better 
resolution and so I am probing for a pointer, a clue, or best-practice 
for handling this problem.

-a

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Andy Ciordia, Network Engineer
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