Hi Well we are now using HP instead of Dell and have hit a major hurdle. We dont seem to be able to kix any of these boxes. I have been most recently trying on a dl585 and the issue appears to be that the kix kernel does not detect any nic. Its strange as the box can be installed using iso's and the nic appears as eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-T (A2) PCI-X 64-bit 100MHz found at mem fa000000, IRQ 209, node addr 001a4bedcf1c bnx2: eth0: using MSI which seems a pretty standard nic to me - has anyone been able to kix new hp kit recently using 4.5 ?? thanks
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Tom Brown wrote:> eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-T (A2) PCI-X 64-bit 100MHz found > at mem fa000000, IRQ 209, node addr 001a4bedcf1c > bnx2: eth0: using MSIHow old is the DL585? There were a bunch of firmware issues with the Broadcom NICs on the DL585, and HP released a firmware update, something like 18 months ago now, that fixed problems that I was having with some DL585's. Steve
> Hi > > Well we are now using HP instead of Dell and have hit a major > hurdle. We > dont seem to be able to kix any of these boxes. I have been most > recently trying on a dl585 and the issue appears to be that the kix > kernel does not detect any nic. Its strange as the box can be > installed > using iso's and the nic appears as > > eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-T (A2) PCI-X > 64-bit 100MHz > found at mem fa000000, IRQ 209, node addr 001a4bedcf1c > bnx2: eth0: using MSI > > which seems a pretty standard nic to me - has anyone been able to kix > new hp kit recently using 4.5 ?? >I had to create a custom initrd file to make it work for me. (this was on an IBM x3655, but has the same NIC) Unpacked the driver from the manufacturer, grabbed the .ko file, and rebuilt the initrd with that driver for the kickstart. Mike