Adding Broadcom BCM5708 (nic) module to kickstart?

[Bill-S]

At Wed, 14 Mar 2007 it looks like Kovacs, Corey J. composed:

> 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)
>
>

Thanks Corey,

We use the first release of RHEL4 shipped from RedHat.

I was wondering if I could add the CentOS-4.4 driver to the
pre-existing kickstart engine we are using?  Sound plausible?

Thanks Corey

> -----Original Message-----
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> [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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