Hi, On Thursday 12 July 2007 14:37, Henning Sprang wrote: > In the meantime, I got this also working with fai 3.1.8 quite easily. > Have to document it sometime... basically just take the "normal" Etch > kernel and initrd (I got it working even without making a special > initrd!) and call fai-chboot with the "right" arguments to use that > initrd and image for some hosts. Needed this for installation of newer > thinkpads with e1000 NICs
I'm also facing problems with an e1000 NICs, namely the onboard NICs 82566DC Chip on the DP35DP Intel Desktop Motherboard, PCI ID: 8086:29c4 As far as I can see * the current (2.6.23.1 and 2.6.24.rc1) kernel tree e1000 driver (vers. 7.3.20-k2) does not support this NIC * the current out-kernel e1000 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/) driver (version 7.6.9.2) does support PCI ID: 8086:29c4. Therfore Ubuntu gutsy ships some updated e1000.ko (or e1000-ich9.ko) driver module. * the out-tree driver does not work as a drop-in replacement for the in-kernel driver. It can, however, be compiled as a module seperately. * therefore most straight forward way to fai-install a modern intel board is to run an initrd fai kernel. I see, that you already found the "right" arguments to do that. Would you mind making your kernel + initrd available to the public? This would save me (and others) the time to configure, compile and debug. Thanks, Thomas
