Debian lenny does work after a bit of shoe-horning as detailed below. Here is the relevant output of lspci on an Debian lenny running kernel 2.6.29 on PowerEdge R410
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5716 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20) 01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5716 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20) To get those NICs working you will need at least: kernel 2.6.29-bpo.2- amd64 Use this package: http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/linux-image-2.6.29-bpo.2-amd64 You will also need firmware for these NIC drivers, the debian kernel maintainers are prejudiced against binary "blobs" within the kernel as it does not meet their standard of "free". In any case you will need to download the firmware separately at this link: http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/firmware-bnx2 I posted this from a previous address but I thought I might as well repost. Toni On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:46 AM, Drew Weaver wrote: > Hi there, I just wanted to let everyone know that we just got an > R410 in to test and that it uses different NICs than the R710 and > pretty much only works with Redhat/CentOS. > > We have the R710 working out of the box in: > > Debian 4/5 > Ubuntu 7/8/9 > Fedora 7/8/9/10/11 > CentOS 4/5 > RHEL 4/5 > VMWare ESXi 3.5/4 > XenServer 5.5 > Gentoo 2008.1 > > Just wanted to let people know that if they're expecting the R410 to > work the same as the R710 as far as NICs go they may be disappointed. > > thanks, > -Drew > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
