[RHCE] Broadcom card support

[David Baker]

Hi Dave Schwartzburg,
                                  Apologies for mailing you, however my
colleague and I currently searching  the web to find a suitable way to
"net/ether boot" our linux cluster, and I saw a recent posting from you. I
wonder if you would be able to help us, please.....

We have set up all the prerequisites to try out net booting - tftp and dhcp
servers, converted the kernel to a "pxe" kernel, loaded the client
filesystem on the server, etc. We tried the "net boot" yesterday, and found
that we couldn't work with a kernel greater than 0.5 Mbytes in size (I
understand that this is a restriction imposed by dhcp (?)).

   We understand that the way around all of this is to use a bootable floppy
ROM image (.zdsk image). Unfortunately after searching "rom-o-matic" we can
not see any support for out Broadcom NICs (tg3s). I wondered if you or your
colleagues could please help us in this respect..... I quote from your
recent posting.....

I have helped another team at work create a new install/boot disk with
the Broadcom module built into it by adding the module to the initrd
image.  They were then able to do a virtual floppy based kickstart
install.  I am not familiar with how LTSP works, am I wrong in assuming
you would need a single floppy with support for the network card built-in?

I suspect if we could please have access to this image then we could try
"ether booting" on the new cluster instead. This, I note, is the method that
we normally use to boot our linux nodes.

Thanks in advance - David Baker.