CentOS - Dec 2007 - Problem with driver disk on amd64

Hi,

I have a really strange problem with a driver disk
(http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8111b) on amd64.
I'm remotly booting the system via isolinux-files, so I unfortunatly
do not have access to relevant logs, all I can see the the primary
console/screen. 
With i386, the driver disk works just fine and I can install via http.
But with amd64, the installer complains no driver for the hardware
could be found, which again keeps me from installing the system. 
Due to the lack of RTL8111 hardware, I cannot debug this locally
either. 
Does anybody have an idea what might be wrong?

Thanks.
-- 
Fridtjof Busse

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 09:03 +0100, Fridtjof Busse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a really strange problem with a driver disk
> (http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8111b) on amd64.
> I'm remotly booting the system via isolinux-files, so I unfortunatly
> do not have access to relevant logs, all I can see the the primary
> console/screen. 
> With i386, the driver disk works just fine and I can install via http.
> But with amd64, the installer complains no driver for the hardware
> could be found, which again keeps me from installing the system. 
> Due to the lack of RTL8111 hardware, I cannot debug this locally
> either. 
> Does anybody have an idea what might be wrong?
> 
> Thanks.
I've just installed today a server from Hetzner.de (on a AMD Athlon x2
x86_64) using this card in blind mode and it's working with the supplied
driver disk on the wiki ...
How can you tell that 'installer complains no driver for the hardware
could be found' if you don't have console access ?
just to be sure : what's the result of lspci -v
mine : 
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device
368c
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 209
        I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
        Memory at feaff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [48] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+
Queue=0/1 Enable-
        Capabilities: [60] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [84] Vendor Specific Information


-- 
Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>
Solution ? 
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc
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* Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>:
> I've just installed today a server from Hetzner.de (on a AMD Athlon x2
> x86_64) using this card in blind mode and it's working with the
> supplied driver disk on the wiki ...
Funny, I'm trying to do the exact same thing (DS 3000)
I'm using "r8168-2.6.18-53.el5-i686-x86_64.img"
> How can you tell that 'installer complains no driver for the hardware
> could be found' if you don't have console access ?
I got a LARA, a Java-based remote console. But I can't switch consoles
with that thing ('Alt' is caught on my local machine).
I'm booting with (shortened):
'linux dd method=http:// nousb noipv4 ip= netmask= gateway= dns='

If I do that with the 64bit vmlinuz/initrd.img, the system asks me where
the driver disk is located, loads it and complains that there's no
driver for the necessary hardware (ethernet).
With the 32bit version, everything works fine.
> just to be sure : what's the result of lspci -v
> mine : 
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
Looks exactly the same here in 2.6.18-53.el5. But unfortunatly, 
"i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux"

-- 
Fridtjof Busse