RH 7.3, bcm5700, SmartArray 5302

[Jim Serio]

I am running RH 7.3 with kernel version 2.4.18-24.7.xsmp. I installed the latest bcm5700 driver (6.0.2A-1) as per the installation directions, changed the alias in modules.conf to point to it and all was well (lsmod showed bcm5700 instead of tg3). I then decided to install the cciss driver from Compaq (currently was using the one provided by the kernel). The driver version is 2.4.44-2. The install went fine and I rebooted.

The network appeared to start properly but I knew there was a problem when it couldn't sync to the timeserver and eventually times-out. I was unable to ping any outside servers, although I could ping the gateway. ifconfig showed that the NIC was UP and running.

If I reboot to one of the previous kerels (prior to the new initrd versions created by cciss) everything is fine.

Is there a known conflict between these two drivers or am I doing somethign wrong?

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Jim