On JS20/JS21 (ppc64) with SLOF-1.4.0-0 (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/pa-slof/) anaconda no longer detects the network card correctly. It used to work in Fedora 8. Anaconda says "no driver found" and selecting the tg3 driver manually does not help.
Does udev normally work for getting the module loaded?
It is a PCI card: 02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5780S Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 02:04.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5780S Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) This seems to be a problem with the kernel. I just built a 2.6.25-rc5 with the driver built-in and I get following error: tg3.c:v3.87 (December 20, 2007) PCI: Device 0001:02:04.0 not available because of resource collisions tg3: Cannot enable PCI device, aborting. tg3: probe of 0001:02:04.0 failed with error -22 PCI: Device 0001:02:04.1 not available because of resource collisions tg3: Cannot enable PCI device, aborting. tg3: probe of 0001:02:04.1 failed with error -22 So this is probably not an anaconda bug.
What kernel version was used for that test?
As mentioned above: 2.6.25-rc5 Concerning this I already received an answer from Nathan Lynch and he wrote: Yes, this is a known issue... Ben and I have looked at it some, but no fix yet. According to a git bisect the change that caused it is "Merge PCI resource allocation & assignment" (3fd94c6b1a1158d3e0e505b0a00c3a707b5fcd40) but I don't think this would be easy to revert.
Still broken?
Changes in Linux exposed a bug in the firmware. With correct firmware the installation can detect the network card again. Closing as NOTABUG.