Network Driver and kickstart

[Matt Rose]

On 5-Jan-07, at 6:43 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote:

> 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?

Ooo.  Good question.  I'll check.

>
>>>
>>> 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.

That sounds about right, I'm running RHEL3, with update 8

>
> Ray
>
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