Is there anyway to load a network driver at installation time. Centos 5.2 x86_64. Alternatively, is there a way to do a USB network driver at boot? Either is fine... Presently I have a rtl 8168 that just hangs at DHCP request. I want to use all the kickstart information I have setup, but need the network to work for that. Any ideas? Jerry
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:34 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:> Is there anyway to load a network driver at installation time. Centos > 5.2 x86_64.Yep - it''s definitely in the kickstart docs - don''t remember where though...> Alternatively, is there a way to do a USB network driver at boot?See above... ;)> Either is fine... Presently I have a rtl 8168 that just hangs at DHCP > request. > I want to use all the kickstart information I have setup, but need the > network to work for that.>From what I recall, there''s an entry to the start of the kickstartsomething like "linux ks=whatever dd" or something like that... How to automate it into unattended kickstart? I haven''t done that yet, so I''m not sure. -I
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:> Is there anyway to load a network driver at installation time. Centos > 5.2 x86_64.The driver disks are available. Please check out Section 7 of: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8111b Akemi
> > On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:34 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > >/ Is there anyway to load a network driver at installation time. Centos > />/ 5.2 x86_64. > / > Yep - it''s definitely in the kickstart docs - don''t remember where > though... > > >/ Alternatively, is there a way to do a USB network driver at boot? > / > See above... ;) > > >/ Either is fine... Presently I have a rtl 8168 that just hangs at DHCP > />/ request. > />/ I want to use all the kickstart information I have setup, but need the > />/ network to work for that. > / > >/From what I recall, there''s an entry to the start of the kickstart > /something like "linux ks=whatever dd" or something like that... How to > automate it into unattended kickstart? I haven''t done that yet, so I''m > not sure. >Ian, I am looking at the docs and have not seen how to get a USB network adapter to be recognized at installation time. Do you know how to do this? I have a trendnet et100 device (usb network adapter) that linux supports. I wish to just disable the onboard network, use the usb NIC to do my install, and yum udpates, then re-enable the onboard NIC. My issue is I cannot get the usb NIC to be recognized at installation time? Is that possible? Jerry