* Fabian Arrotin fabian.arrotin@arrfab.net:
I've just installed today a server from Hetzner.de (on a AMD Athlon x2 x86_64) using this card in blind mode and it's working with the supplied driver disk on the wiki ...
Funny, I'm trying to do the exact same thing (DS 3000) I'm using "r8168-2.6.18-53.el5-i686-x86_64.img"
How can you tell that 'installer complains no driver for the hardware could be found' if you don't have console access ?
I got a LARA, a Java-based remote console. But I can't switch consoles with that thing ('Alt' is caught on my local machine). I'm booting with (shortened): 'linux dd method=http:// nousb noipv4 ip= netmask= gateway= dns='
If I do that with the 64bit vmlinuz/initrd.img, the system asks me where the driver disk is located, loads it and complains that there's no driver for the necessary hardware (ethernet). With the 32bit version, everything works fine.
just to be sure : what's the result of lspci -v mine : 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
Looks exactly the same here in 2.6.18-53.el5. But unfortunatly, "i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux"