Most modern servers use Broadcom network cards. The module is called tg3 and is known to have issues. You can find in my blog several posts about weird problems with tg3. This post is about another one I’ve encountered only recently. The server: Dell PowerEdge (PE) 830. Linux version: RedHat Advanced Server 4 (RHEL4) Update…
In my post just below, I have defined a set of tests to verify the possible cause of the tg3 problem. It had nothing to do with autoneg, and was fixed in RHEL 4 Update 4. That 32bit installer works correctly. One last thing to test – rebuild the installer initrd, and replace tg3 module…
I have a PXE installation server setup, and it usually works quite well. I have tried to install a Tyan based system using this setup, but this time – RHEL4 U3 X86 and not the usual X86_64 system. RH installer starts by asking few questions (language, keyboard, method of installation) and fails to obtain DHCP…
