On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Simon Butcher wrote:

>> Yes this is what I wanted to verify. The tg3 driver is in the pxeboot
>> initrd.img .
>> 
>> Do you have any other debugging info?
>> 
>> -Connie Sieh
>
> I saw this F13 bug report which may provide some info:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602155
>
> "tg3 is the correct NIC driver. broadcom.ko is the driver for the PHY. The 
> tg3 driver requires the broadcom driver and should automatically load it"
>
> An earlier email from Orion Poplawksi noted that the broadcom.ko driver was 
> not present in the initrd.img
>
> I also tried booting with RHEL6 X86 Network Install and Recovery Disc, and 
> had the same problem.

I suggest that you put in a bugzilla entry for RHEL 6 on this issue.

>
> The installer offers me a chance to load a driver from a list (or floppy/dvd 
> - making a disk image looks like a whole world of pain). Selecting tg3 
> doesn't work.
>
> regards
>

-Connie Sieh