EL 2.1 install via PXE Boot and NFS Kickstart

[Aaron Cline]

Hi:

I've been going round and round with a problem for the last few days and 
I'm hoping someone out here can help.  I have a bunch of new Compaq 
D530s with Broadcom NICs.  The Broadcom driver for these NICs is the 
bcm5700.  The bcm5700 driver in the 2.4.9.e34BOOT kernel does not work 
out of the box.  I have downloaded some GPL drivers from Broadcom's 
site.  I have been able to compile these for the 2.4.9.e34BOOT kernel 
and insmod them on a machine running this kernel.  They work like a 
charm.  I have also found other documentation about howto edit the 
RHCD1:/images/pxeboot/initrd.img file to add my new bcm5700 module to 
the boot image. 

I then boot via PXE.  Everything works great.  I get a message saying 
bcm5700 found.  Then it says it inserts the module, no errors.  Then it 
says its going to try to get an address via DHCP, and chokes.  Basically 
the kernel tells me that there is no eth0 device.  I'm stumped.  I have 
been working on this for days.  Does anyone have any tid-bits of wisdom?

Thanks,

A Cline

acline2 at cox dot NET