ASSERT network device problem

[Greg Morgan]

Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Jon Warner wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm having trouble getting kickstart running properly as part of a PXE
>>install on RHEL3. The pxe boot seems to work fine, and the installer
>>starts correctly, but once you try to manually start a http/ftp/nfs
>>install it refuses to find a network driver.
>>The nic in question is an intel e1000.
> 
> 
> I suspect the flavour of e1000 is not known to the driver. Which RHEL3
> update are you using? What are the PCI ids of the card (lspci)?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil
Yep.  If RHEL3 is a 2.4 kernel and the e1000 is a late model NIC, then 
this explains your problem.  Please look here 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115212.  The 
problem was solved for FC1 by moving to FC2 and a 2.6 kernel.  It would 
take them some work to fix it in a 2.4 kernel as noted in the bug 
report.  It was so rude when I experienced the bug ;-)

Regards,
Greg