I spoke too soon it seems. The splash on the OpenFiler site fails to mention that the referred to "New OpenFiler 2.3" is only the previously released RC. That's not revealed until you get to the download page.
Additionally, I found that even though I had now managed to get the igb driver installed and get the quad port VT card recognised and bonded, the latest kernel breaks the iSCSI target. If I were to go through rebuild hell now and deploy the 2.3RC will there be an upgrade path? To quote the forums: "The question was whether it would be possible to upgrade from the beta (2.3) to final. 2.2 users will indeed be able to upgrade simply by issuing "conary updateall". The beta was built using a different group label so as not to interfere with updates to 2.2 in the meantime. There won't be a need to re-install for folks wishing to upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3." As I cannot as yet "conary updateall" from 2.2 to 2.3 RC this suggests, by inference, that I won't be able to go from 2.3 RC to 2.3 final as the RC is still, effectively, beta. This is a crap situation to be in. I can have my network card under 2.2 but no iSCSI (this is an iSCSI NAS, so not much point), I can install the RC and maybe get both but then maybe have to reinstall when 2.3 final is released or, lastly, I can rollback my existing 2.2 until iSCSI is working again and live without the network card until 2.3 final is released (been delayed a few times already and there is still no release date published anywhere). None of these three options appeal. Anyone have any brilliant suggestions? > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:openfiler-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Martin > Sent: Monday, 23 June 2008 14:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [OF-users] Intel Quad port Pro/1000 VT PCI-e card not > detected onOpenfiler 2.2, even with Kernel 2.6.24.7-0.4.smp.gcc3.4.x86_64 > > After some hunting around I found the VT quad cards are supported by the > igb driver, which is now in the latest kernel. Once I unpinned the > kernel in conary and updated it I was able to reboot and load the > driver. > > I have also just noticed the final release of 2.3 which means I get > stable bonding, too. Hooray! > > Chris Martin > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:openfiler-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Martin > > Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2008 11:14 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [OF-users] Intel Quad port Pro/1000 VT PCI-e card not > detected > > onOpenfiler 2.2, even with Kernel 2.6.24.7-0.4.smp.gcc3.4.x86_64 > > > > I've been trying to get an Intel Pro/1000 VT quad port card working in > > my dev Openfiler system, a Dell 2950. The only hints I have as to why > > the card isn't working is a dmesg line 'intel_rng: FWH not detected' > and > > some forum posts about Intel quad port cards. > > > > The forum posts suggest that I just upgrade to the RC of 2.3, but > there > > are some issues with that. Firstly the system mostly works and I don't > > want to have to do a clean install of 2.3 RC and there doesn't seem to > > be an upgrade path from 2.2 to 2.3 RC. There is also a lot of > vagueness > > from the Openfiler developers as to whether or not we'll be able to > > upgrade from RC 2.3 to 2.3 final (as per forum topic > > https://forums.openfiler.com/viewtopic.php?id=1547). Combined with the > > 2.3 final release date vagueness (it's been vague for at least 3 > months > > since the push back of the 2.3 release last year) it's making it very > > hard to decide what action to take. > > > > I tried adding kernel:build-tree and development tools via conary and > > then install the Intel reference driver, but I kept getting build > > errors. You can read my forum posts about these attempts here: > > https://forums.openfiler.com/viewtopic.php?pid=7693#p7693 > > > > Anyone have any suggestions? I haven't deleted any rollback data from > > conary, so I should be able to undo any damage done by me rummaging > > around for my own solution. > > > > I'm by no means an rPath/conary/Openfiler expert, so I am hoping I am > > just missing something simple. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris M > > _______________________________________________ > > Openfiler-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users > _______________________________________________ > Openfiler-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
