The automated installation worked using the tg3 module for the Broadcom NICs. Thank you all, especially Bjorn, you saved me a few hours of troubleshooting. Mouncef |---------+----------------------------> | | Bjorn Tore Sund | | | <bjornts@mi.uib.n| | | o> | | | | | | 05/19/2004 02:21 | | | AM | | | | |---------+---------------------------->

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On Tue, 18 May 2004 Mouncef_Belcaid@blm.gov wrote:

I have used Autoyast successfully to install SuSE 8.2 Pro on multiple IBM Blade servers. Each one of these servers comes with two Broadcom gigabit cards, I used the bcm5700 module which worked fine during and after the installation. We purchased more of these Blades, which come with the next generation Broadcom cards, they work fine after a manual installation is complete. The problem is during the automated installation. After the installation kernel loads, the card tries to get a DHCP IP from the NFS server (before YAST starts), that's when it hangs. I checked the DHCP server logs and it doesn't seem like the request is even reaching the server. I tried loading 9.0 on one of the Blade servers, and it worked using Autoyast. But I have to stick with SuSE 8.2 for now. Is there an updated version of the SuSE 8.2 Pro loader files (initrd, linux, memtest...)?

On 32bit systems I've found that the tg3 driver is a lot more stable than the bcm5700 driver. Have you tried that? Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 Support: system@mi.uib.no Contact: teknisk@mi.uib.no Direct: bjornts@mi.uib.no -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com