ahhh very good info, I've happily got Fedora 8 running, but I didn't take time to look for those newer drivers in RHEL5.1 I guess I'll reload :)
I payed for the subscription personally so I would like to use it. :) Thought it would help towards getting my RHCT. Thanks again. On Nov 12, 2007 10:08 AM, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Cooper wrote: > > Thank you.... great info. > > No problem. > > > > 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 > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 does include both the old 'i810' and the > new 'intel' video drivers. > > Not sure if its actually considered experimental anymore -- its > definitely the preferred route for driving Intel graphics chipsets in > Fedora, but I don't know if its enabled by default in RHEL5 now... > > > > > 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
