No network drivers for doing kickstart

[Phil Bettinson]

Hello again,

I have also experienced a similar problem, this seems to be with a 
problem (for me at least) with the tg3 driver with Redhat As 3 update 6, 
a problem we didn't have (and don't have) if we just use Redhat AS 3 
(with no updates). This seems to be more of a problem with the vmlinuz 
and the initrd for this release. As we didn't want ot re-build these, we 
went back to using RedHat AS 3, which works.

I note, however that in RedHat AS 3 update 7, there has been an update 
to this driver. I'm busy downloading the Isos so I can give it a go with 
that, and see if it works.

Phil (again)

Phil Bettinson wrote:
> Morning,
> 
> Your issue might possibly be because of the switch that the machines are 
> connected too. Some (newer?) switches do some negotiations and speed 
> tests before clearing the port for use, this can cause the DHCP to time 
> out (as the network request doesn't get further than the port). I've had 
> this problem on a few machines here, but our network engineer simply 
> removed or decreased the timing for the port (sorry for the vague 
> answer, but I havn't seen the operation myself yet), and that seemed to 
> solve the problem
> 
> Hope that Helps,
> 
> Phil
> 
> Elizabeth.Brosch at thomson.com wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for reply.  I don't know what my issue is but I am unable to get
>> past it. 
>> Liz Brosch
>> TSH System Services
>> Philadelphia, PA  19104
>> office:  (215) 386-0100 x1144
>> cell:     (267) 784-9166
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>>
>> We have not seen that error in the course of installing dozens of rh3
>> and rh4 instances on both dl380 and dl585 machines.  We have had trouble
>> with the DHCP/PXE/tftp exchange failing due to too much lag time in the
>> repsonse.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> http://www.rossberry.com
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