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Re: PXE kernel on SL6 missing network drivers for Dell Optiplex 380
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Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]>
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Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:16:25 -0600
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On 3/19/2011 1:38 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> 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.)
>
I unpacked the initrd.img and the broadcom.ko driver is missing.  Did 
not check the config to see if it was supposed to be built into the kernel.

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