fai and broadcom 5700 nic

[Jacob Weismann Poulsen]

* John Zaitz <jzaitz at works.com> [2003-08-01 07:59]:
> 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.

VERY nice to know. Thanks.

> 
> 
> 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. 

I haven't try to use their kernel-patch but I have successfully made an
initrd solution where I load their module before mounting the nfsroot.
If you still care I can mail you the details.

Jacob

> > 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
> > 
> > 
> 

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