Re: [CentOS] hardware isues

2011-08-17 Thread William Warren
On 8/17/2011 9:59 AM, lists-centos wrote:

  Original Message 
 Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 01:33:39 PM +
 From: lists-centos
 To: William Warrenhescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] hardware isues



  Original Message 
 Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 06:43:24 AM -0400
 From: William Warrenhescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
 To: lists-centos
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] hardware isues

 On 8/13/2011 9:40 PM, lists-centos wrote:
  Original Message 
 Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011 09:06:51 PM -0400
 From: William
 Warrenhescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com

 I have a broadcom bcm5722 and a dual intel pro/1000 pt nic in a
 dell  t110.  The setup sees the cards and i put them into
 automatic mode.   After the install no cards are detected at
 all. Astaro 8.01 detects and  utilizes all of these cards just
 fine. I have also tried ubuntu server  10.04 lts and they work
 fine. I'm curious if this is a bug with Centos 6?
 I have a new T310 with what I suspect has the same intel dual NIC
 - the machine is off at the moment and the order detail just
 says:

 On-Board Dual Gigabit Network Adapter [430-2008]

 that I installed centos 6.0 on last week. I only configured first
 port and it worked fine. The install set up a stub ifcfg-eth1
 which looked fine too, but I haven't configured it yet to confirm
 that it works as expected.


   - Richard


 how did your testing go?  I've reburned and md5ed multiple times.
 I just cannot get cent6 to work on this machine.  ubuntu 10.05lts
 works flawlessly.
 I installed centos6.0 on a second new Dell T310 yesterday with no
 problems. I'm doing net installs from a local repository so do the
 network setup at that point, assigning a static (ipv4) ipnumber.
 I'm given the choice of NIC, and in both cases have selected the
 first one. I don't touch the networking stuff after that point in
 the install, and  it all works fine. The
 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file is fully populated.
 The eth1 file has stub information.

 The card on the second machine is a Broadcom (haven't brought the
 first t310 back up yet to confirm its card) -- below are the
 details from dmesg from the last reboot.


 Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.0.8-j15 (Feb
 15, 2010)
 bnx2 :02:00.0: PCI INT A -  GSI 16 (level, low) -  IRQ 16
 bnx2 :02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
 bnx2 :02:00.0: firmware: requesting
 bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j15.fw
 bnx2 :02:00.0: firmware: requesting
 bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j10.fw
 eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express
 found at mem da00, IRQ 16, node addr 78:2b:cb:3d:08:98
alloc irq_desc for 17 on node -1
alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
 bnx2 :02:00.1: PCI INT B -  GSI 17 (level, low) -  IRQ 17
 bnx2 :02:00.1: setting latency timer to 64
 bnx2 :02:00.1: firmware: requesting
 bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j15.fw
 bnx2 :02:00.1: firmware: requesting
 bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j10.fw
 eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express
 found at mem dc00, IRQ 17, node addr 78:2b:cb:3d:08:99

  ---

 A couple of years ago I had trouble with a RealTek card and found
 that the kernel didn't have (working) firmware support for it. In
 that case I was able to get the necessary driver and would load it
 after the machine came up. The next kernel update or two had the
 issue fixed.

 I was just looking at the message on the list [CentOS] Problem
 getting eth0 up and it got me wondering. Are you configuring the
 network at any point in the install process? With previous versions
 I seem to remember the network configuration step as being obvious.
 With 6 it isn't. Because I configure eth0 as part of the net install
 setup I skip the Configure Network box, but it's rather subtle and
 easily missed if you haven't already done the network setup.


- Richard



First time I didn't...the subsequent times I did.  I tried setting them 
as dhcp to no avail.  I then tried static.  I'll try one more time if it 
doesn't work i'll have to stick with ubuntu...
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Re: [CentOS] hardware isues

2011-08-14 Thread William Warren
On 8/14/2011 6:39 AM, lists-centos wrote:
 did you add the broadcom card, or did it come installed? i'm
 wondering if there's some type of conflict between it and the
 onboard  NICs.


  Original Message 
 Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011 11:29:25 PM -0400
 From: William Warren
 To: lists-centos
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] hardware isues

 Well i have also tried the minimal version and the same thing.  it
 seems there's something not going well with the t110(and maybe
 higher units) and centos?

 On 8/13/2011 9:40 PM, lists-centos wrote:
  Original Message 
 Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011 09:06:51 PM -0400
 From: William Warrenhescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com

 I have a broadcom bcm5722 and a dual intel pro/1000 pt nic in a
 dell  t110.  The setup sees the cards and i put them into
 automatic mode.   After the install no cards are detected at all.
 Astaro 8.01 detects and  utilizes all of these cards just fine.
 I have also tried ubuntu server  10.04 lts and they work fine.
 I'm curious if this is a bug with Centos 6?
 I have a new T310 with what I suspect has the same intel dual NIC
 - the machine is off at the moment and the order detail just says:

 On-Board Dual Gigabit Network Adapter [430-2008]

 that I installed centos 6.0 on last week. I only configured first
 port and it worked fine. The install set up a stub ifcfg-eth1
 which looked fine too, but I haven't configured it yet to confirm
 that it works as expected.


   - Richard


  End Original Message 


The broadcom is embedded the intel dual port is the addon.  Only centos 
6 has this issue i am currently running kvm under ubuntu 10.04 right 
now.  I also did a test install of esxi and astaro and they worked 
perfectly there.  It is something weird with centos.
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