Network Driver and kickstart

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:14:55PM -0500, Matt Rose wrote:
> 
> Funny, I just finished fighting with this, the installer and kernel  
> work fine, but for some reason, you have to disable PXE on the  
> ethernet devices to get it to work.  Does anyone know why this is?
> 
> Matt

You mean the NIC isn't detected or won't work in the installer at all if PXE
is enabled on that interface?

I have not run across that on our 2950's.  The NIC's do show up reversed in
the OS -- eg eth0 is actually port 2 and eth1 is actually port 1 (in BIOS and
labeled on the back of the server).

Ray

> 
> On 5-Jan-07, at 12:31 PM, Leonhardt, Rick wrote:
> 
> >I’ve got some new Dell 2950’s that have the BroadCom chip set for  
> >the NIC’s.
> >
> >How do I alter the software on the install server to install this  
> >driver ?
> >
> >
> >thanks