On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, 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)?

Stupid question:
This is definitely a case of not having the drivers
and not one of trying to use the wrong interface ?
(There have already been threads about SL6 numbering them differently
from SL5 and IIRC SL5 sometimes numbers them differently in the
PXE kernel and the main OS kernel.)

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