Vu Pham wrote: > > Ed Greshko wrote: >> Vu Pham wrote: >>> Jason Edgecombe wrote: >>>> Ed Greshko wrote: >>>>> Jason Edgecombe wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>> >>>>>> I just got a Dell Optiplex 760 and RHEL5.2 doesn't support the >>>>>> network >>>>>> card or the video card. >>>>>> >>>>>> NIC: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit >>>>>> Video card: ATI Technologies Inc Mobilitiy Radeon HD 3470 >>>>>> >>>>>> Has anyone else made RHEL5 work on this hardware? >>>>>> >>>>> For the NIC, you can download and install the latest >>>>> e1000e-0.5.8.2.tar.gz driver directly from the Intel site, compile it >>>>> for EL5.2 and use it. I've done this before and it works >>>>> well....not >>>>> for this specific NIC...but it would be the same. >>>>> >>>>> For the Video card....you can try getting the drivers from ATI. I >>>>> use >>>>> nVidia and use their drivers. I would think ATI is the same. >>>> Thanks, but how do I add the driver to my kickstart setup so I can >>>> kickstart from the network? >>>> Making a driver disk image would be preferable to tweaking the >>>> installer's initrd. >>>> >>>> I tried looking for the kernel-boot package, but couldn't find it. >>>> Where can I et the installer kernel so I can compile the driver? >>>> >>> Do you use PXE boot/kickstart ? >>> initrd.img of 5.2 pxe does contain driver for e1000 ( e1000e.ko and >>> e1000.ko ). >>> >> While that is true, it would seem that the driver does not have support >> for the newer hardware. >> >> Unfortunately, I am not able to answer the question about how to get the >> newer driver inserted into a kickstart environment. > > Have you tried adding the new driver into initrd.img, ? > You may wish to outline for the OP how he would go about doing that.... I'm not a kickstart user.
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