Re: [Ltsp-discuss] tg3 nic Broadcom 5752 14e4/1600 gigabit

2006-05-18 Thread Doug Herbert
> It turns out that it's easy to force the loading of > the tg3 kernel module. > > You simply need to pass 'NIC=tg3' on the kernel > command line. > > For PXE (which i'm sure the broadcom is using), you > need to edit the > /tftpboot/lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/pxelinux.cfg/default > file, and add > '

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] tg3 nic Broadcom 5752 14e4/1600 gigabit

2006-05-18 Thread Jim McQuillan
Doug, No need to build any special kernels. The broadcom chipset is supported by the tg3 kernel module. The problem is, we don't have all of the possible broadcom chips in the niclist file, so auto-detection isn't working properly for you. It turns out that it's easy to force the loading of

[Ltsp-discuss] tg3 nic Broadcom 5752 14e4/1600 gigabit

2006-05-18 Thread Doug Herbert
I am trying to run version ltsp 4.2 on a HP dc7600 box. Even though the default kernel is bzImage-2.6.16.1-ltsp-2 ( and I have checked the vanilla kernel 2.6.16 from kernel.org, does support this card ) It appears that there is no module compiled into the initramfs.gz file. So kernel loads and