On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Kaj Niemi wrote:
That's curious. I've now installed over twelve Dell 760 desktops with
RHEL 5.3 Desktop via USB-booted kickstart to an HTTP server and it has
worked perfectly every time. My problem turned out to be that the NIC
was off in the BIOS. That's obviously not your problem so I wonder what
is...?
What does your ethernet controllers report as their pci id? The one I have
says:
[kaj...@pxe5 ~]$ /sbin/lspci |grep Ethernet
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 02)
[bd...@peppermill ~]$ /sbin/lspci |grep Ethernet
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 02)
[kaj...@pxe5 ~]$ find /sys/devices -name \*00:19.0\*
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0
[bd...@peppermill ~]$ find /sys/devices -name \*00:19.0\*
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0
[kaj...@pxe5 ~]$ cd /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0
[kaj...@pxe5 0000:00:19.0]$ cat modalias
pci:v00008086d000010DEsv00001028sd0000027Fbc02sc00i00
[kaj...@pxe5 0000:00:19.0]$
[bd...@peppermill ~]$ cd /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0
[bd...@peppermill 0000:00:19.0]$ cat modalias
pci:v00008086d000010DEsv00001028sd0000027Fbc02sc00i00
[bd...@peppermill 0000:00:19.0]$
So, no different.
That particular string is there in modules.alias on RHEL 5.3 and the
e1000e driver seems to have that as well inside itself...
So one wonders what the problem is... Do other operating systems work with
it? Have you tried an installation of Fedora 9 or 10? Or even another
distribution altogether, or Windows? Might be worth confirming that it's
the OS that's at fault...
Ben
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