<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Verdana; ">Well, first of all, thanks so much for the overwhelming response to my post.<br><br>I got it working and here is what I did;<br><br>1 - Get the source from Intel and compile in the same env as the kickstart OS. You will have an igb.ko file as a result.<br><br>2 - Mount the kickstart CD;<br>a - cd to were you want it.<br>b - gunzip < /media/CDROM/initrd.img | cpio -i --make-directories<br><br>3 - change to to the modules directory that was created in #2b above.<br>a - gunzip < modules.cgz | (cd were you want it && cpio -idv)<br>b - cp igb.ko were ever you wanted it from #a above/kernal-version/86x64<br><br>4 - change to the parent dir the of kernal-version and do;<br>a - find kernal-version | cpio -ov -H crc | gzip > path to were u want it/modules.cgz<br><br>5 - modify the files in your modules dir from #2b above, Since 5.3 has support for this Itel NIC, I had to reverse engineer from 5.3 initrd.img the files;<br>pci.ids<br>modules.alias<br><br>6 - go into the parent dir from #2b were the contents of initrd.img were extracted and were you modifying the files in #3b and #4b;<br>a - (find . | cpio --quiet -c -o) > ../initrd.img<br><br>7 - copy the iniitrd to your original isolinux dir that the kickstart Cd is based off of.<br><br>8 - change to that dir and do;<br>a - mkisofs -o ../whatevername.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table . <br><br>9 - use what ever burning sw to create a CD from iso.</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#464646" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#464646" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#464646" face="Verdana">Hope this helps any one in a similar bind.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#464646" face="Verdana"><br></font><div><div>On Aug 19, 2009, at 4:56 PM, <a href="mailto:aurfalien@gmail.com">aurfalien@gmail.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Hi all,<br><br>I've got a Centos 5.1 kickstart that I must continue to use.<br><br>How can I update the kick start image so that it recognizes Intel gigabit 82576 nic?<br><br>BTW, I compiled the driver I need and have this igb.ko file.<br><br>How do I incorporate that into my initrd.img file that I see on the kickstart CD that is probably my kickstart boot OS.</font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Thank you very much in advance.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">aurf -</font></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>