From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I had a problem installing RH3 on a box with a tg3 nic. These nic's are (in combination with certain switches) some kind of buggy (autodetection doesnt really work). I was looking for a way to set speed and duplex setting at installation time and found the ethtool= option. But this option didnt help eiter. While looking at anaconda-9.1.4.1/loader2/net.c I discovered the reason for this. First the dhcp server gets asked for an ip address and only after that the speed and duplex settings are done. I don't think thats right. If you don't get a link (because of the broken autodetection) you won't get an ip from the dhcp server. I fixed the code (patch attached, some debug messages added) and now it works. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 9.1.4.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ... 2. ... 3. ... Additional info:
Created attachment 109913 [details] Fixed the described problem. Additionally some debug messages have been added.
Commited to RHEL3, RHEL4 and HEAD.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-191.html