On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Drew Weaver wrote: > The point being that pretty much everything works on the R710 right out of > the box, except for Debian which you have to import the non-free firmware > into the initrd. We are a mass production shop here, we install all of our > OS over the network, if the NIC doesn't work, the box is useless to us. > There was no reason to make the BCM5716 the standard NIC on the R410, they > could have just let people upgrade if they needed the iSCSI support.
I can see that you'd rather it worked like that, but then I think it's a flawed argument that basically precludes Dell from using any new hardware, or at the very least constrains them to identical chipsets across a generation. I've had the same situation with CentOS and I also do solely network installs. I just upgraded the kernel for the installer, and you're sorted. The hardware was released after RHEL 5.3 was, and that's the OS Dell support isn't it? The support's in the mainline kernel right? If I'm wrong, and that version of Ubuntu is supported by Dell, then it's clearly outrageous. jh _______________________________________________ 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
