On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Steve Gentry wrote: > However, I'm confused. IIRC, comments on this list indicate that the > qeth/qdio modules are not in RH. But when I enter qeth0 during the > config, RH doesn't fuss.
Strange that it does not complain... By default the modules are not in the installation initrd for the RH 7.2 distro. You can try a couple of things: * Look for a CD labelled "IBM modules" or something. This CD has a second ramdisk image that you punch to the reader after the main initrd. The installer picks this up and makes the modules available. * If you can't locate this second initrd, you will have to create your own version of the installation initrd with the modules included. Download the modules from DeveloperWorks (it's a tarball), then go through the process of adding the modules to the initrd (check the archives for exact method, but it's more or less like: un-gzip the initrd file, mount it using loopback driver, copy the modules into the mounted initrd, unmount the initrd, gzip the modified initrd, disco). Of course you may have to use CTC or IUCV as an alternative to QETH to get the system installed. Yet another option would be to look at moving to RHEL 3.0, now that it's GA. This distro includes the OSS QETH driver, so it works out-of-the-box. Hoo-roo, Vic
