Bug 75787 – can't perform network install

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Bug 75787 - can't perform network install

Summary:	can't perform network install

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeff Garzik
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Reported:	2002-10-12 09:22 EDT by Marius Andreiana
Modified:	2013-07-02 22:07 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2002-10-25 13:48:54 EDT
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Description Marius Andreiana 2002-10-12 09:22:09 EDT

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 04:09:36 EDT

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 13:48:46 EDT

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 15:13:17 EDT

It works with PCI NE2000. Sorry for the bogus report.

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