On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:28 +0100, Fridtjof Busse wrote: > * Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at 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" > I've installed it with success on a DS3000 too .. but i didn't use LARA ... I've mostly (i've changed some parameters though) used the informations provided here : http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/DS8000_/_CentOS_5_/_VNC_Install I'll probably write something on the Wiki regarding such remote setup but i can assure you that it's working for me ;-) -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071212/4207abca/attachment-0005.sig>