Re: PXE kernel on SL6 missing network drivers for Dell Optiplex 380
I suggest that you put in a bugzilla entry for RHEL 6 on this issue. FYI I found an outstanding redhat bug on this issue, however, shortly after commenting on the bug, it was made private by redhat and the bug report is no longer viewable. The bug still exists in RHEL 6.1 beta, but I have resolved the issue with a local workaround to fix PXE installs on systems with Broadcom 57780 Unpack the initrd.img, copy the broadcom.ko file from a working SL60 install , and update the module dependency files (with depmod), and repackage the initrd.img and replace on the PXE server. regards -- Simon Butcher Computer and IT Systems Manager School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London
Re: PXE kernel on SL6 missing network drivers for Dell Optiplex 380
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. 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 -- Simon Butcher Computer and IT Systems Manager School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London,
Re: PXE kernel on SL6 missing network drivers for Dell Optiplex 380
On 21/03/11 19:22, Connie Sieh wrote: 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. Hi Connie Here is my output for the network card: 02:00.0 0200: 14e4:1692 (rev 01) regards -- Simon Butcher Computer and IT Systems Manager School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London
Re: PXE kernel on SL6 missing network drivers for Dell Optiplex 380
On 22 March 2011 10:42, Simon Butcher s.butc...@qmul.ac.uk wrote: On 21/03/11 19:22, Connie Sieh wrote: 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. Here is my output for the network card: 02:00.0 0200: 14e4:1692 (rev 01) Performing the double grep technique -- $ grep -i 14e4 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep 1692 /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias pci:v14E4d1692sv*sd*bc*sc*i* tg3 /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.18.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias pci:v14E4d1692sv*sd*bc*sc*i* tg3 /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.18.2.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias pci:v14E4d1692sv*sd*bc*sc*i* tg3 -- I see that card definitely requires the Tigon3 driver. Alan.
Re: PXE kernel on SL6 missing network drivers for Dell Optiplex 380
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 22 March 2011 10:42, Simon Butcher s.butc...@qmul.ac.uk wrote: On 21/03/11 19:22, Connie Sieh wrote: 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. Here is my output for the network card: 02:00.0 0200: 14e4:1692 (rev 01) Performing the double grep technique -- $ grep -i 14e4 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep 1692 /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias pci:v14E4d1692sv*sd*bc*sc*i* tg3 /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.18.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias pci:v14E4d1692sv*sd*bc*sc*i* tg3 /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.18.2.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias pci:v14E4d1692sv*sd*bc*sc*i* tg3 -- I see that card definitely requires the Tigon3 driver. Alan. 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
Re: PXE kernel on SL6 missing network drivers for Dell Optiplex 380
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@: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 -- Simon Butcher Computer and IT Systems Manager School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London,
Re: PXE kernel on SL6 missing network drivers for Dell Optiplex 380
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@: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
PXE kernel on SL6 missing network drivers for Dell Optiplex 380
Hello Attempting to perform a network kickstart from a local mirror on a Dell Optiplex 380 with the onboard Broadcom BCM57780 Gigabit ethernet controller. It appears that the pxe boot kernel on SL60 does not have the drivers, although SL55 definitely has them and we regularly kickstart these machines with SL55 (and SL54 i think also worked). SL53 did not. However for SL60 not to have them is a considerable regression. I am using the pxeboot images mirrored from: http://rsync.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/os/images/pxeboot/ Anyone have any insights, or confirm/deny this behaviour for this network card (or workarounds not involving physical media)? regards -- Simon Butcher Computer and IT Systems Manager School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London
Re: PXE kernel on SL6 missing network drivers for Dell Optiplex 380
On 03/18/2011 10:10 AM, Simon Butcher wrote: Hello Attempting to perform a network kickstart from a local mirror on a Dell Optiplex 380 with the onboard Broadcom BCM57780 Gigabit ethernet controller. It appears that the pxe boot kernel on SL60 does not have the drivers, although SL55 definitely has them and we regularly kickstart these machines with SL55 (and SL54 i think also worked). SL53 did not. However for SL60 not to have them is a considerable regression. I am using the pxeboot images mirrored from: http://rsync.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/os/images/pxeboot/ Anyone have any insights, or confirm/deny this behaviour for this network card (or workarounds not involving physical media)? regards Hi, Do you know which driver it is? Also, have to you tested yet with the non pxe install images? Troy -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __
