fai and broadcom 5700 nic

[John Zaitz]

Just as an update for anyone else who might be using the broadcom card. 
It turns out that the tigon3 driver in 2.4.21 actually works. So now I 
have succesfully done a basic install using the broadcom card.


On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:16:20PM -0500, John Zaitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First I must say that FAI is a wonderful piece of software and, although 
> I have just started using it, I can see its power for setting up groups of hardware.
> 
> I have just received some new Dell 1750's with the BroadCom NetXtreme 
> onboard gigiabit nics and am attempting to rebuild a kernel with the broadcom 
> drivers compiled in rather than as a module for use as the fai kernel. 
> Unfortunately the kernel compile fails. I have tried using the tigon3 
> driver but this throws an error: "problem retrieving invariants of chip". 
> I have attached the last couple lines of the kernel compile output as 
> well as the config I am using. Perhaps someone has been successful with 
> getting the latest broadcom driver compiled into the kernel rather than 
> as a module?
> 
> My other option is to go the PXE -> dhcp -> tftp route using an initrd. 
> To date I have been unable to get the module to actually load during 
> boot. In this case I do know that the initrd image is being transfered 
> (as noted in the tftpd log) to the box but the module fails to load. 
> To create the ramdisk I am running:
> 
> mkinitrd -o initrd.img  /lib/modules/2.4.20.fai.custom
> 
> then adding bcm5700 to /etc/mkinitrd/modules
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help and/or pointers.
> 
> John
> 
>