ASSERT network device problem

[Philip Rowlands]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Jon Warner wrote:

>I'm having trouble getting kickstart running properly as part of a PXE
>install on RHEL3. The pxe boot seems to work fine, and the installer
>starts correctly, but once you try to manually start a http/ftp/nfs
>install it refuses to find a network driver.
>
>Alt-F3 reveals
>
>*Getting kickstart file
>*ASSERT: no network device in chooseNetworkInterface
>*no network drivers for doing kickstart.
>*unable to bring up network
>*trying to mount device hda
>
>The nic in question is an intel e1000.

I suspect the flavour of e1000 is not known to the driver. Which RHEL3
update are you using? What are the PCI ids of the card (lspci)?


Cheers,
Phil