Bug 104137 - Kickstart unable to lock NIC media type
Summary: Kickstart unable to lock NIC media type
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-09-10 13:59 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-10-05 03:26:55 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2003-09-10 13:59:27 UTC
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Description of problem:
I am trying to develop a kickstart deployment process for the Dell poweredge 
650, the IBM x335, and the Hp/Compaq dl360 g3.  I have created a Custom 
bootnet.img that supports the e1000 and bcm5700 NIC's, and if I leave the 
network switch set to auto negotiate, everything works fine.  Unfortunantely, 
all of the
switch port will be locked and therfore I need to be able to lock the media 
type to 100 / full in the kickstart script.  I have tried several variations of 
the "device"
command in the kickstart script without any luck.  Here are some of the 
kickstart commands that I have tried without success - 
device eth e1000 --opts "Speed=100, Duplex=2"  
and 
device eth bcm5700 --opts "speed 100 duplex full autoneg off"

None off the kickstart commands I have used work.

Thanks
Tom


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a bootnet.img to support the e1000 and BCM5700 gig NIC's
2.configure the ks.cfg for a network build.
3.
    

Actual Results:  I can tell via the ctl-alt f3 and f3 that the adapter is auto 
negotiating rather than being locked at the requested media type.

Expected Results:  hopefully it would have been locked at 100 / full

Additional info:

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2003-12-15 09:01:01 UTC
Reassigning to anaconda, seems more appropriate than kernelcfg (which
was a GUI tool to configure /etc/modules.conf ages ago). :-)

Read ya, Phil

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2004-10-05 03:26:55 UTC
This can be done in newer releases with ethtool opts on the install
command line or in the ks.cfg


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