Network Driver and kickstart

Ray Van Dolson rvandolson at esri.com
Fri Jan 5 23:43:57 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:40:22PM -0500, Matt Rose wrote:
> The NIC is not detected at all by the installer, and kudzu didn't  
> detect it at startup, unless PXE was disabled.  As soon as PXE was  
> disabled in the BIOS, kudzu detected and installed the driver.
> 
> I'll play around with this Monday to see if I can reproduce it  
> reliably, and get a more accurate picture of what's going on.

What version BIOS is the 2950 running?

> >
> >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
> 
> Weird, I haven't noticed that.

Hmm... guess I should ask what version of RH as well.  I think maybe this
problem only manifests itself with kernel 2.6, but I could be wrong.

Ray




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