On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor)
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> On 11/13/2014 07:36 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>> CAn you just use a USB ethernet device just for installation? Most are
>> supported and have been for years, they use only a few chipsets.
>
> I've looked at a few and it's a bit confusing on the support for PXE booting
> using those.  Not real confident about it so it seems like a much better
> idea to disable the onboard NIC, install an add-on NIC that does have kernel
> support and press forward.

The manufacturers don't tend to publish, but I've kept a spare
USB-100BaseT adapter in my laptob bag for *years* for just such
situations. Given away several to colleagues facing just your
predicaatment, and all the ones I bought at Radio Shack or Staples or
similar outlets Just Worked(tm) everh since.... oh, my, RHEL 4, before
I was using Scientific Linux?