Eugene,
What features of the BCM5700 driver do you need that tg3 doesn't
supply? You are not going to find a bcm5700 driver in any prebuild PXE
kernels, since it isn't a part of the standard Linux kernel. Adding it
yourself shouldn't be too hard, although most instructions for it cover
how to make it as a module, not compile it into the kernel.
To make your own kernel, etc, look through the archives from around
Sept/Oct last year for details of how to create such a kernel, but you
need to be very aware of all the devices you need to support in your
kernel.
Frank
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 03:30, eugene wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I have figured out where the problem is and what is going wrong.
> The PXE kernel does indeed lack support for the BCM5700 range of NICs
> Unfortunately the kernel you sent me does not work either (It needs the
> BCM5700 driver, the tg3 driver doesnt seem to be sufficient). I found
> another kernel from Jeremy Enos by searching the list that does support
> my NIC, unfortunately something else goes wrong when his ramdisk image
> is mounted and I end up with a kernel panic similar to the one reported
> here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03077.html
>
> I'm thinking I am going to have to compile my own kernel with BCM5700
> support in, or at least do something about the initrd.img.
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks
>
> Eugene
>
> Bernard Li wrote:
> > Hey Eugene:
> >
> > Can you look carefully at the error message which says "No DHCPOFFERS
> > received"? Does it say 'lo' or 'ethX'? My feeling is that the network
> > driver wasn't even loaded for your client nodes.
> >
> > The kernel image which SIS use to boot up your client nodes for imaging
> > does not contain the appropriate network drivers - I have an image which
> > Frank compiled a while back which works for the bcm5700 series and if
> > you need it, just leave me a message.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bernard
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eugene
> >>Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:29
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: [Oscar-users] Yet another DHCP query
> >>
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>I think I have a vague idea of the answer to this one:
> >>I have manged to get all the way to network booting my client node.
> >>After loading the kernel and drivers, during the install
> >>process the client fails at "start network" with the
> >>following message:
> >>
> >>"No DHCPOFFERS received"
> >>
> >>What I dont understand is how it can load the kernel and the
> >>autoinstall across the network, but fails to configure the
> >>network card for the latter part of the install. It seems
> >>likely that the driver initialization of the onboard broadCom
> >>BCM5700 is failing despite the fact that the driver modules
> >>were included with the chosen kernel.
> >>
> >>Currently the following network drivers are being loaded, why
> >>I dont know:
> >>Intel Pro/1000
> >>pcnet32.c
> >>ns83820.c
> >>sk98lin (the dlink module I had to install to get the second
> >>NIC on the master node working)
> >>
> >>Might it have anything to do with the fact that the BCM5700
> >>is installed as eth1 on the master node, while it is eth0 on
> >>the client? Seems worth trying to swop them.
> >>
> >>Please tell me I dont have to recompile the kernel with the
> >>BCM5700 driver. Also for some mysterious reason, the tg3
> >>driver does not work on the master node and I have to use the
> >>bcm5700 for the broadcom NIC.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>
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