Adding Broadcom BCM5708 (nic) module to kickstart?

[Kovacs, Corey J.]

What version of RHEL did you use? I run RHEL4.4 on HP DL series machines
which have the same nic and it works just fine. CentOS 4.4 corrosponds to
RHEL4.4 so if you tried an earlier release of RHEL then that might explain
it.

Be aware that the bnx2 driver shipping with RHEL4.4 has a nasty (but rarely
seen) bug which took our cluster nodes down every few hours. Something the
dlm was doing triggered it. 




Corey Kovacs
Senior Systems Engineer
Technology Management Associates
703.279.6168 (B)
855-6168 (R)


-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bill-S
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:06 AM
To: Kickstart
Subject: Adding Broadcom BCM5708 (nic) module to kickstart?

Hello Family,

I was curious as to how to add a newer nic driver to a pre-exisiting
kickstart setup.

Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11)

With RHEL4 and the new DELL-2950's, it appears that there is no support for
the following network card.  I ran CentOS-4.4 "live" and got the following
info for the nic came up then:

#############################
/etc/modprobe.conf
#############################
alias eth1 bnx2
alias eth0 bnx2
alias scsi_hostadapter megaraid_sas
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
#############################

[root at localhost ~]#

grep bnx2 /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.livecd.c4/modules.dep

/lib/modules/2.6.9-42.livecd.c4/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko:

############################

TIA



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