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Re: PXE kernel on SL6 missing network drivers for Dell Optiplex 380
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:20:08 -0500
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On 03/18/2011 10:10 AM, Simon Butcher wrote:
> Hello
>
> Attempting to perform a network kickstart from a local mirror on a Dell
> Optiplex 380 with the onboard Broadcom BCM57780 Gigabit ethernet controller.
>
> It appears that the pxe boot kernel on SL60 does not have the drivers,
> although SL55 definitely has them and we regularly kickstart these
> machines with SL55 (and SL54 i think also worked). SL53 did not.
>
> However for SL60 not to have them is a considerable regression. I am
> using the pxeboot images mirrored from:
> http://rsync.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/os/images/pxeboot/
>
> Anyone have any insights, or confirm/deny this behaviour for this
> network card (or workarounds not involving physical media)?
>
> regards

Hi,
Do you know which driver it is?
Also, have to you tested yet with the non pxe install images?

Troy
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