Stephan,
I will research this after I get Scientific Linux 4 out the door(today
and tomorrow)
-Connie Sieh
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Hi Yannick, Martin et al,
>
> thanks for your responses. As a stopgap measure, I put the kickstart file
> onto a floppy, and now kickstart installs are humming away. The first one
> just finished the postinstallation without problems, and there are no
> indications of anything being wrong with the NIC.
>
> Lspci identifies those cards as 82541GI/PI: Class 0200: 8086:1076 (rev
> 05). The servers are Dell 2850s (no, we still prefer opterons ;-).
>
> A Dell 1850 we set up in January has NICs with exactly the same PCI,
> and back then kickstart just worked, three out of three times.
>
> I still think the problem is with the installer, and that there's
> a good chance that applying the patched pump/anaconda-runtime/netconfig
> - if not yet done - might save many SL sites some grief.
>
> Thanks again,
> Stephan
>
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Bly, MJ (Martin) wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [log in to unmask]
> >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> >> Behalf Of Stephan Wiesand
> >> Sent: 20 April 2005 16:26
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> 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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