kudzu

[cthiebot]

Hello,

I loaded Linux RedHat EL 4 U4 on a Proliant DL380. After moving the 2 hard disk drives into another Proliant DL380 server, the kudzu hardware detection program asks me to remove the Ethernet cards (2 of them: 1 in a PCI slot and 1 on the motherboard) but does not ask me to add the cards (after removal) and configure them . I ended up with no ifcfg.eth* files under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. This issue was not noticed with RHEL 3.

So, how to force the system to detect the Ethernet cards if kudzu does not do it?

Christophe Thiebot

[Rasheed Tamton]

Hello,

All the currently installed hardware will be in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf

Check the above file to see whether these are alrady there

and do a safe probe
kudzu -s

Rgds,
Rasheed Tamton.

[cthiebot]

In /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, the eth 0,1,2,3 are there, but with a wrong MAC address. When I restart the network services on eth0, for example, a message says that the MAC address is not correct.
When i do: kudzu -s, nothing happens. No new hardware is detected.

[Stuart Browne]

Try removing the ethernet entries from '/etc/sysconfig/hwconf' and re-running 'kudzu'.

Sometimes Kudzu isn't as smart as it's supposed to be.. ;)

[cthiebot]

I tried to remove the eth* entries from hwconf, but invoking kudzu or kudzu -s does not yield any result (kudzu just returns without doing anything).

[Stuart Browne]

Did it add the ethernet entries back into the hwconf file?

[cthiebot]

No, none of them were added

[Stuart Browne]

Ok, I just want to make sure of this.. You deleted the entire section, i.e.:

-
class: NETWORK
bus: PCI
detached: 0
device: eth1
driver: tg3
desc: "Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet"
network.hwaddr: 00:16:xx:xx:xx:xx
vendorId: 14e4
deviceId: 1648
subVendorId: 0e11
subDeviceId: 00d0
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 2
pcidev: 2
pcifn: 1
-

(this is from a Dl360, but it will look fairly similar).

You deleted all of this, then ran '/usr/sbin/kudzu' ?

[cthiebot]

Yes, I deleted the whole section with NETWORK, but nothing happened when I run kudzu manually.

[cthiebot]

I found what was wrong!
lspci returned an error because of duplicate entries in /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids.
By removing the duplicate entries, lspci was fine and kudzu was able to detect my hardware!