On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wies...@desy.de> wrote: > On Nov 12, 2014, at 16:35 , Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
> If the NIC isn't supported, you'll have to provide a driver with every kernel > update. ELrepo may help with this (after successful installation), but you'll > have to check. Yes, kmod-forcedeth for EL7 is available from ELRepo. I would even note that there was a "high" demand for this driver. > To get kickstart installs over the network going, the keyword is > "driverdisk". Alas, the last time I had to resort to this was more than a > decade ago, thus everything I know about it is outdated. The kickstart option > seems still to be there, but I couldn't find any recent instructions how to > create one. And then you'll have to make it available to the installer on a > local device, since it's a network driver you need. I think back then I was > using a floppy. Good grief... You might want to try filing a request for a driver disk at http://elrepo.org/bugs . With some luck, it may be provided. > NB It's not unlikely that more components on those systems are no longer > supported. Maybe you should just take it as a strong hint to replace the > systems before the EL6 EOL? Here you can find a list of drivers removed from RHEL 7 (SL 7): https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Migration_Planning_Guide/sect-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Migration_Planning_Guide-Removed_Packages.html#sect-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Migration_Planning_Guide-Removed_Packages-Removed_Drivers Akemi
