Bug 75787 - can't perform network install
Summary: can't perform network install
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Garzik
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-12 13:22 UTC by Marius Andreiana
Modified: 2013-07-03 02:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-10-25 17:48:54 UTC
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Description Marius Andreiana 2002-10-12 13:22:09 UTC
Description of Problem:
system has realtek 8029 nic on PCI, which worked fine in red hat 6.0.

Booted with bootnet.img and tried to perform a HTTP install. I'm asked what
driver to choose and selected RTL 8129too. Next step askes again what kind of
network install to perform ( HTTP, FTP, NFS ).
Alt+F2 shows the rtl8129.o module can't be loaded ( possible by irq conflicts ).

Booted in red hat 6.0, saw it's irq and i/o address from /proc/pci, and tried to
install again by passing these options as
irq=12,io=0xd000
same result.

Tried with additional drivers disk, the other RTL card ( cp ), and NE2000 (with
and without module options), the same. Tried another rtl 8029 nic, the same.

I've finally installed from hdd, and I was asked during install the IP of the
host, and all networking worked fine from the start.

PS: on downloaded isos I checked md5sum

Comment 1 Marius Andreiana 2002-10-19 08:09:36 UTC
I've just installed redhat 7.3 on the same system by http and it works, so the
problem is new in red hat 8.0

Comment 2 Jeff Garzik 2002-10-25 17:48:46 UTC
The correct driver for the Realtek 8029 is ne2k-pci, and it does not require any
module options.  Can you re-test with this driver to ensure you can reproduce
the bad behavior?


Comment 3 Marius Andreiana 2002-10-25 19:13:17 UTC
It works with PCI NE2000. Sorry for the bogus report.


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