Redhat linux 7.3 on a xw6000

[Bob Russell]

I have two xw6000 work stations which came pre-installed with XP. When I tried to install our standard Redhat 7.3 on these boxes, I found that we didn't have drivers for the network card nor for the disk drive. I don't see the drivers listed on the website. Anyone know where I can get them?

[Jerome Henry]

Well, strange issue, as Red Hat supports this product. Check on http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=details&hid=4820
Is your hard drive still the Maxtor, and your network card the Broadcom ?
On the page above, you'll get links to (re)download drivers.
Yours.

[Bob Russell]

Thanks for the note. The network card is the broadcom 10/100/1000. The drive is a Seagate CPN-291244-001. I will follow your link to see if I can find the drivers.

[I_M]

Hi

If your NIC is bcm570x, then you may use either tg3 or bcm5700 driver. They are included in RedHat kernel. But the original tg3 driver in original RH7.3 kernel has a lock up bug. So my advice is use latest RH7.3 kernel and select either tg3 or bcm5700.

Do you find NIC setting in /etc/modules.conf?

alias eth0 bcm5700
alias eth0 tg3

Then you will see the eth0 by "ifconfig -a"

BTW what is the scsi chip of your xw6000?

Good luck.

[Bob Russell]

Thanks for the help folks.
RH 9 recognized the AIC79xx chipset and the Broadcom NIC and installed correctly. Since our application was only certified on RH 7.3, I requested the HP version of RH7.3 from our local service rep. I successfully installed RH 7.3 (HPs CDs) using the 'recover' feature. The CDs are labeled "Red Hat Linux 7.3 with hp additions For use with xw systems"
P/N 322368-B21.