The version of the 3w-9xxx driver included with Linux 2.6.22 does not support the PCI IDs of the 3ware 9690 SAS RAID cards.  In order to install the O/S image on a system with this RAID card and the standard IPP boot media, a newer version of this driver will need to be installed.  The procedure for this is:

 * boot the system off of the cd and configure networking
 * via sftp, download the updated [attachment:3w-9xxx.ko] driver
 * run the commands:
{{{
rmmod 3w-9xxxx;insmod ./3w-9xxx.ko
}}}
 * proceed with the standard install

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This driver was created from the 2.6.22-gentoo (no -rX) sources with this [attachment:.config] and this patch [attachment:9690sa.patch].