[dundee] Install woes

[Colin Brough]

gordon dunlop wrote:
> On 4 February 2010 14:51, Colin Brough <Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk
> <mailto:Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk>> wrote:
> We will let the Ubuntu boys (plenty of them) on this list help with the
> 64-bit installer. The problem with your Broadcom ethernet is system wide
> on Linux distributions (Broadcom has always been a pain in the butt).
> There is a problem where the Broadcom module is not loaded before the
> tg3 driver and the workaround can be two solutions.
> 
> 1. Modify the file etc/rc.local file in Ubuntu/Debian or
> etc/rc.4/rc.local in Redhat systems to:
>  modprobe -r tg3
>  modprobe broadcom
>  modprobe tg3
> 
> 2. Create a /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf if it does does not already exist
> and add the line
>  install tg3  /sbin/modprobe broadcom; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install tg3
> 
> Here is the Redhat bug report:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525966
> 
> I hope that this solves the network problem.

Gordon, thanks muchly - doesn't quite solve it (don't have the
broadcom kernel module on the system by default, so will have to go
looking for it, compile it, whatever), but at least explains things -
I'd got as far as knowing the tg3 module was involved, but
modprobe'ing it alone didn't have any effect... Eventually went round
the issue by nicking the spare natsemi ethernet card from the old
machine, but that does use up the only full-length PCI slot in the new
machine! Hopefully by time next iteration of the distros come around
it'll have been sorted.

The 64-bit installer issue got sorted by using unetbootin rather than
usb-creator (suggestion from u.c.o.l), and booting from a USB stick.

Andrew, yeah, yeah :-;

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Cheers

Colin

Rev Colin Brough
Minister
Fintry Parish Church of Scotland, Dundee
Scottish Charity Number: SC020742

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Colin Brough                             Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk