From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i686) Description of problem: When installing RH7.1.94 with netboot.img and driver.img from floppy the machine does not get ethernet connection over eth1 which is a Netgear GA620 Gigabit (fiber connected) ethernet card. eth0 is a not connected eepro100 card. The acenic driver _is_ propperly loaded from the driver floppy. The link light switches on for a short time but goes out soon after. It is off while anaconda tries to do the reverse name lookup and it subsequently cannot mount my NFS mirror. While loading the acenic driver, the initialization text shows that this NIC was recognized as eth0! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot from floppy with netboot.img 2.insert floppy with driver.img 3.type in the IP address etc. and wait for the failing reverse name lookup Actual Results: The installation just hangs becuse it has no network connection. Expected Results: If network connection would be there I expect a working "reverse name lookup" because the machine _is_ in DNS. And NFS mounting my Red Hat should work. Additional info:
any info on Alt+F3 or Alt+F4?
An email received from Alf: Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:16:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Alf Wachsmann <alfw.EDU> Subject: Re: [Bug 53396] Changed - No installation over eth1 Netgear GA620 To: bugzilla Cc: bfox, borgan On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 bugzilla wrote: > +------- Additional comments from msw 2001-09-07 16:50:47 ------- > +any info on Alt+F3 or Alt+F4? I am afraid, no. The acenic module loads fine from the driver disk. The initialization message says it thinks it is "eth0". The last output from this message is: eth0: Firmware up and running At that point the link light on the NIC starts blinking. I then enter IP address etc. and anaconda starts the "reverse name lookup". At exactly that moment the link light goes permanently OFF. And the lookup just fails without further messages. -- Alf. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Alf Wachsmann | e-mail: alfw.edu SLAC Computing Service | Phone: +1-650-926-4802 2575 Sand Hill Road, M/S 97 | FAX: +1-650-926-3329 Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA | Office: Bldg. 50/323 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
If you install roswell on the system via a different card/means, and try to bring up the gigabit ethernet card after rebooting into the installed system does it work?
The only other means available on that machine is a CD-ROM drive. I _did_ install this machine via CDROM and (IIRC) /etc/modules.conf had the correct entries to bring the card up. However, the files ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 needed editing by hand. After making this change I could run "network stop" and then "network start" and everything worked. -- Alf.
Have you had a chance to try Red Hat Linux 7.2 on this machine?
I just tried it and it does work! -- Alf.
Ok. Closing as "Currentrelease". Thanks for your report.