Thank you.... great info. After futzing around for several hours even when getting the nic to work, I figured it wasn't worth it. I then moved to RHEL 5.1. Nic etc. supported. However, my Intel video wouldn't go above 1024x768 (I have 1280x800) I tried to load the intel hack but no go. I didn't look to see if 5.1 included the experimental intel video driver set like Fedora does, I actually wiped out 5.1 and loaded Fedora 8 and it's working very very nicely. Desktop effects and all.
I love trying to figure things out, but sometimes it's just not worth it. :) On Nov 7, 2007 5:27 PM, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Cooper wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2007 11:08 PM, R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, David Cooper wrote: > >> > >>> I don't know how to tell the system to use them upon boot. It's a > >>> broadcom nic vendor 0x14e4 device 0x1713. Is there a way to insert > >>> this info in grub (as an "append" command to the initrd) and tell it > >>> to load the needed driver when it see's that string? Am I heading in > >>> the right direction? > >> Examine: update-pciids > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -ql pciutils | grep upd > >> /sbin/update-pciids > >> /usr/share/man/man8/update-pciids.8.gz > >> > >> which is a helper script for just this purpose. What you seek > >> may already be present; if not, you can add more by hand to > >> taste. > >> > >> then a quick reboot, and HW detection, and all should be > >> running. > >> > > > > Well, it seems that update-pciids is just a script to grab the latest > > pci-ids (which isn't possible anyway, no network) even if it was, from > > what I've read the pci.ids file is just for matching vendor ids etc. > > to human readable names. I looked through the file and it seems to > > have nothing to do with drivers being loaded for the system. > > > > Thanks for trying to point me in the right direction. I did see a ref > > to setpci, so maybe that's the ticket. I'll write back when I know > > more. However, I did see that 5.1 is now final....so I might just go > > with that. > > Definitely quite likely the NIC is supported by the 5.1 tg3 driver. > > > I do want to know how though. > > Add the necessary #define's to include/linux/pci_ids.h and the > appropriate stanza to the tg3_pci_tbl[] in drivers/net/tg3.c. > > (plus any device-specific initialization/quirk code) > > Oh, and I just double-checked, yes, that NIC is supported in the 5.1 tg3 > driver. > > (Device 0x1713 == PCI_DEVICE_ID_TIGON3_5906M) > > > > -- > Jarod Wilson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
