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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have an HP 8530w laptop. I need ti instal it under CentOS 5.2 x86_64 - kernel 2.6.18-92.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The network card is not recognized. I have add the driver e1000e-0.5.11.2 (dowload from Intel site). </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">After compiled and installed the driver, all work fine!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">But I need to make a network installation and the Intel network card should be recognized before.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I found the following script on the net and try it.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">wget </FONT><A HREF="http://my_web_server/CentOS/5.2/x86_64/images/diskboot.img"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://my_web_server/CentOS/5.2/x86_64/images/diskboot.img</FONT></U></A>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cp diskboot.img diskboot.orig.img</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mkdir diskboot_mnt</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mount -o loop diskboot.img diskboot_mnt</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mkdir initrd_extracted</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cd initrd_extracted</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">gunzip < ../diskboot_mnt/initrd.img | cpio -i --make-directories</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cd ..</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mkdir modules_extracted</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cd modules_extracted</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">gunzip < ../initrd_extracted/modules/modules.cgz | cpio -i --make-directories</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cd 2.6.18-92.el5/x86_64</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">rm e1000e.ko</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">wget </FONT><A HREF="http://my_web_server/e1000e.ko"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://my_web_server/e1000e.ko</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"># Now put humpty back together again</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cd ../../</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">find . -print |cpio -o -Hnewc | gzip -c9 > ../modules.cgz</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cd ..</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cp -fp --no-preserve=all modules.cgz initrd_extracted/modules/</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cd initrd_extracted</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">find . -print |cpio -o -Hnewc | gzip -c9 > ../initrd.img</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cd ..</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cp -fp initrd.img diskboot_mnt/</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"># cleanup</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">umount diskboot_mnt</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">rm -rf diskboot_mnt/ initrd_extracted/ initrd.img modules.cgz modules_extracted/</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mv diskboot.img diskboot.mod.img</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">dd if=diskboot.mod.img of=/dev/sdb</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">After trying to start on a USB key, the network card is not recognized again :-(</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Something is missing ...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">how to add this network driver for starting a network installation ?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Anybody do this before ?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Best Regards (and sorry for my poor english)</FONT>
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