On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Simon Butcher wrote:

> On 18/03/11 18:20, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Do you know which driver it is?
>> Also, have to you tested yet with the non pxe install images?
>>
>> Troy
>
> It's the tg3 driver (see lshw output below on same hardware running
> SL55). It's the only network card in the machine.
>
> # lshw -C net
>   *-network
>        description: Ethernet interface
>        product: NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
>        vendor: Broadcom Corporation
>        physical id: 0
>        bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
>        logical name: eth0
>        version: 01
>        size: 100MB/s
>        capacity: 1GB/s
>        width: 64 bits
>        clock: 33MHz
>        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet
> physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
>        configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3
> driverversion=3.106 duplex=full firmware=sb latency=0 link=yes
> module=tg3 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
>
> If i boot with the SL6 install DVD and specify ks=<kickstart file> on
> the grub boot screen, the installation also fails to find the kickstart
> file (due to and reverts to a non-kickstart DVD-based install.
> ctrl-alt-f2 shows the following errors
> getting kickstart file
> no network devices in choose network device!
> no network drivers for doing kickstart
> unable to bring up network
>
> to reiterate, this was a problem in pxe installs in SL53, and working in
> SL55
>
> regards
>

The tg3 driver exists in the SL 6 i386 and x86_64 pxeboot initrd image

me@somewhere initrd-sl6-pxe.i386]# find . -name "*ko*" -print | grep tg3
./modules/2.6.32-71.el6.i686/kernel/drivers/net/tg3.ko.gz

Can you provide the lspci -n output of this card.

-Connie Sieh