Bugs item #694068, was opened at 2003-02-26 20:23 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by bligneri You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109368&aid=694068&group_id=9368
Category: Installation Group: None >Status: Closed >Resolution: Works For Me Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jeremy Enos (jenos) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: SIS chooses driver differently than OS Initial Comment: So I don't know how SIS chooses which driver to use for detected hardware, or even how it detects it. Here's a real world problem though: Redhat 7.3 installs on head node and detects a Broadcom GigE adapter, and loads a tg3 driver. SIS installs clients on exactly the same hardware, but uses the bcm5700 driver instead of the tg3. Both drivers work initially and things seem fine. It turns out that the bcm5700 driver has issues which freeze these machines though. Directly, this is of course a problem with a driver. Indirectly, maybe RH chose the tg3 driver for a reason, doesn't matter. The questions are: How does RH select a driver? How does SIS select a driver? They should be conisistent, no? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Benoit des Ligneris (bligneri) Date: 2004-11-22 20:47 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=179120 RH uses its own database that takes into account the fact that it has a kernel patched that include several not necessarly free or avalaible in the vanilla kernel. SIS uses its own database to select the driver using the drivers avalaible in the vanilia kernel. Both uses the PCI attribute of the harware (lspci -v) and choose the driver accordingly. This is more or less easy to add support for a new hardware in SIS by modifying this file : /usr/lib/systemconfig/Hardware/PCI/Table.pm The SIS database is upto date (compared to Mandrake). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109368&aid=694068&group_id=9368 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
