Thanks a lot for your kind reply. I have been using Debian Lenny on R710 and a similar problem was solved via firmware upgrade. This time I am first time using CentOS.Can you provide me a link to the driver that you are referring to.
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Tom Boland <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't upgraded any of our boxes from 5.4 yet, but I have to say I've had > two big problems with the stock bnx2 NIC drivers from 5.4 (for both R610s > and R710s). The first problem was that the NICs would just die randomly > when under heavy load, which required a network restart. This in particular > can be resolved by adding options bnx2 disable_msi=1 to /etc/modprobe.conf. > After that, I was finding that a box which was in production would > occasionally start intermittently losing packets/connectivity, which also > required a network restart. I couldn't resolve this without getting the > latest NIC drivers from the Dell website. > > Now I don't have any problems, but I've stopped my kernel from automatically > updating until I set the NIC driver up using DKMS. > > It's not easy to test that the problem could be fixed in RHEL/CentOS 5.5, > but I'll give it a go. > > Cheers. Tom. > > On 05/18/2010 12:11 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote: > > Hi,list > I want to know if some one have installed CentOS 5.5. on their Dell > Power Edge R710 what problems did they faced. > I was running a Debian Virtualization setup.Until recently I had to > install CentOS as DomU on Debian Dom0 and that is when all trouble > began.If any firmware update etc is needed or any network card related > issue is there please let me know.Before I proceed to installation. > Thanks and Regards. > > > -- Tapas _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
