Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 166018
Missing entry in pcitable from package hwdata
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:19 EST
We are working on using the system-config-netboot tool that is part of the RedHat 3 & 4 AS releases. In using this tool, actually the updated one from: http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/system-config-netboot/, as part of the diskless boot it executes a function that does an lspci to establish what devices the system has so that it can figure which ones are ethernet devices to load the right driver. The problem I'm having is that it is working for most all of my systems except a couple and the problem appears to be that /usr/share/hwdata/pcitable as part of the hwdata rpm is incomplete for this device. The hardware I have is the Arima HDAMA motherboard which has two broadcom gigE NICs onboard. For most all of the systems I have the info that lspci gives for the ethernet devices is this: lspci -n |grep "Class 0200" 02:03.0 Class 0200: 14e4:16a6 (rev 02) 02:04.0 Class 0200: 14e4:16a6 (rev 02) Those listed above work just fine and end up allowing the script to find and load the tg3 driver. However on a few boards the output is this: lspci -n |grep "Class 0200" 02:03.0 Class 0200: 14e4:1653 (rev 03) 02:04.0 Class 0200: 14e4:1653 (rev 03) the /usr/share/hwdata/pcitable file does not have an entry with 1653 in it for the tg3 driver and thus the rest of the disklessrc script from system-config-netboot is unable to find the right driver and it exits incomplete. This simply seems to be then a request to have the additional info added to pcitable such that: lspci -n |grep "Class 0200" 02:03.0 Class 0200: 14e4:1653 (rev 03) 02:04.0 Class 0200: 14e4:1653 (rev 03) results in a positive match to the tg3 driver. Thanks.
pcitable entries aren't needed, as that device is supported in the module's own pci id tables. system-config-netboot can't just be grepping pcitable.
This is now fixed with system-config-netboot-0.1.30-1 . disklessrc should have been looking in the modules.pcimap file generated by depmod, not in the hwdata pcitable. It should find the tg3 driver for your 14e4:1653 devices correctly now. 0.1.30-1 can be downloaded from: http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/system-config-netboot/ This version also fixes other bugs - eg.: bug 166217, 165735 , bug 165772, bug 165730. Please try out this version and let me know of any issues - thank you.
*** Bug 163353 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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