Title: Re: [Oscar-users] RE: DHCP Client failures after PXE Boot
If it is possible for you to 'exchange' your nics, I believe the ones using the bcm570x chipset will work (at least there is a SIS kernel available which has that module that will allow you to PXE-boot).
 
Cheers,
 
Bernard


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of DD
Sent: Wed 02/06/2004 7:44 PM
To: Pavel A. Petukhov; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] RE: DHCP Client failures after PXE Boot

Same here!

Both the "desktop" and the "server" gigabit cards did
not work. I just ordered some "desktop" gigabit card
from 3COM today. I will try them later and will post
my results.


--- "Pavel A. Petukhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have exactly the same problem as Chad Dupuis.
> RedHat9.0 does
> not recognize IntelGigabit ethernet cards (e1000) in
> our
> Supermicro 3.06 Dual Xeon servers unless
> e1000-5.2.52 driver
> is installed. We can install new e1000 driver on the
> master node
> and bring up the network cards but we can not do the
> same trick with
> the computational nodes since OSCAR does not
> generate an image
> that has the correct e1000 driver built-in. As in
> Chad's case, the
> nodes PXE boot, then they get the boot image from
> TFTP server, and
> then try either to get DHCP address or to assign
> static ip and fail
> because there is simply no eth0 or eth1 interface.
> Exactly the same
> happens if we generate a boot disk instead of PXE
> boot.
>
> Can anybody suggest how to generate a RedHat9.0 boot
> image with the
> correct updated e1000 driver that can be used by
> OSCAR or how to
> force OSCAR to use the correct e1000 driver ?
>
> Pavel Petukhov
> University of Illinois at Chicago
>
>
>
>
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