Fabio Catunda wrote:
> I installed a Debian lenny system and got no NIC support, that's ok,
> backports solved the problem after installing linux-image-2.6.30 and
> firmware-bnx2.
>
> The question now is that I need to run Xen on this machine, now I'm
> stuck. I need kernel version 2.6.30 to have my NIC working, but there is
> no kernel 2.6.30 with Xen support.
1. Get the NIC driver working on 2.6.26
. This might be as simple as new firmware, or PCI-ids (i.e. no
recompliation needed), or might require back porting some changes from
2.6.30
. There is a bcm5700 source package in lenny that you can compile
with module-assistant, but I've no idea if this will support your chips
2. Install a different NIC card in the machine e.g. an Intel add-in card
- Intel provide good support for open source, unlike Broadcom's patchy
(and at times hostile) stance.
3. Use kvm or openvz instead of xen - both of these are supported in
Debian, whereas Xen is Deprecated as of the next release.
HTH,
Tim.
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