Pre-upgrade assitance fails with warnings about pcnet32 driver

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Issue

On attempting to upgrade a RHEL 6 server to RHEL 7, the pre-upgrade assistant shows the below failure:

preupg.risk.EXTREME: The 'pcnet32' kernel driver required to service the hardware present on your system is not available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. This suggests that your system contains hardware that is not supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6

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