Stephan et al,

Not sure this has any bearing on the situation but we had some problems
with two particular servers with e1000 NICs that refused to talk
correctly to some new Nortel switches, whereas their identical brethrin
worked fine.  The two NICs have the 82543GC chip and are tagged at the
PRO/1000T server adapter, the rest were one of the other (older?) 8254X
chips.  The systems are (still) running RedHat 7.2 so the leap is rather
large to SL 3.

All our other e1000 NICs work fine with SL3.0.X.

Being in a hurry, we didn't investigate, choosing to swap out the cards
for known good ones.  Ideas at the time were that the autonegotiation
wasn't working but as I say, we didn't persue the problem.

Martin.

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> Sent: 20 April 2005 16:26
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> Subject: 3.0.4 kickstart problem w/ e1000
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting kickstart installations going on a 
> couple of 
> servers with intel gigabit NICs.
> 
> The symptoms match what's described in
>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110036
> 
> Initial network setup works, but after the NIC is brought up for the 
> second time, things just fail. Even the link indicator is 
> off, and the 
> switch doesn't think there's anything connected to the other 
> end of the 
> cable any longer (switches are cisco gear, and we tried 
> different models 
> even running different OSs).
> 
> A non-kickstart NFS installation works fine (at least up to the point 
> where I see the graphical installer - haven't really done it yet).
> I can also boot a 3.0.4 rescue system and bring the interface 
> up and down
> and up again many times in a row without problems.
> 
> Red Hat issued an erratum
>     http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2004-518.html
> 
> that's supposed to fix these problems. I wonder: did these 
> fixes make it 
> into what's used during a kickstart installation of SL 3.0.4?
> 
> Any additional hints are much apreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
>   	Stephan
> 
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