We just now ran into this same problem at almost the same time you posted this Monday night. ;-) The problem makes it impossible to build recent models of Dell servers (1750, in this case) using SystemImager, regardless of flavor. The vanilla 2.4.20 tg3 driver is simply incompatible with the (Broadcomm?) chipset, it looks like. Apparently, RedHat has added patches to the RH9 2.4.20 kernel to fix this, as a standard RH9 CD install works fine on these machines.
dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:56:06PM +1000, Frank Crawford wrote: > > Folks, > > Recently, a number of OSCAR users of had problems with PXE booting new > > servers with recent hardware, particularly the Broadcom NIC and tg3 > > driver. This is mainly due to the driver in the 2.4.20 kernel (which > > forms the basis of the boel utilities) being too old. > > PXE booting all happens before the kernel is running, so I don't see > how the driver pertains - or is this actually not a pxe booting problem? It's not a PXE problem -- once the SystemImager kernel is loaded, whether from floppy or PXE, it can't see the network adapter, so things just sort of stop there; no DCHP response, because eth0 never gets configured. This is with tg3 built into the kernel, per the i386 SystemImager 3.0.1 default. > > The current version in OSCAR is systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.1.4, > > although 3.1.5 suffers the same problem. I think (although haven't > > tested) that the driver in the 2.4.22 kernel should work better, so are > > their plans to release a new version of the systemimager-i386boot to > > support it? > > Jumping to a 2.4.22 isn't planned before 3.2.0, though i realize that by the > time 3.2.0 actually happens, 2.4.20 is going to be rather dated). If you can > send a patch that updates the 2.4.20 driver, that'd be easy to add. Which should be easier, patching 2.4.20, or trying to ourselves migrate to 2.4.22? I started an attempt at a 2.4.22 migration; still looking through the resulting patch rejects... ;-) > > Secondly, FYI, I've put together a version of both the kernel and > > boel_binaries based on the current Red Hat kernel (2.4.20-20.9) which > > supports the current Broadcom chipset. A number of users have already > > requested it. > > cool - feel free to post a url to it here. I second that -- I could very much use it this minute. Steve -- Stephen G. Traugott (KG6HDQ) UNIX/Linux Infrastructure Architect, TerraLuna LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stevegt.com -- http://Infrastructures.Org ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
