Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply. I went with the uniprocessor kernel and it works great - I was under the impression that the SMP kernel was necessary for OSCAR. Thanks for the tips! We now have our first cluster up with 6 nodes.
Take care, JAW On 7/8/02 12:01 PM, "Richard Ferri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, > I think you have two issues here: which kernel to > use, and whether it supports the Realtek ethernet NIC. > > First, are your nodes uni or SMP? OSCAR by default > will install an SMP kernel, which is usually benign on > a uni, but sometimes causes crashes. So, if your nodes > are unis, then I would install the uni kernel first. > Jason gives the URL in another post to this mailing > list on how to do that. > > Now, the other question is whether Realtek support is > turned on for the kernel you decide to use. I just > looked at a 'stock' kernel from Mandrake 8.2, the one > distributed with the distro, and in that one Realtek > support is modular,and it does turn on support for > older Realtek NICs. So, you need to take a look at > the .config file for the kernel you decide to install > and see if Realtek is turned on. > > It sure sounds like from your description that > Realtek is turned on for the network boot kernel (used > during installation) and then not turned on in the > kernel that you install on the nodes (or modular > support was turned off in the kernel, which is really > unlikely)... hope this helps, Rich > > Richard Ferri > IBM Linux Technology Center > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 845.433.7920 > --- "John A. Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello - >> >> We have been attempting to install the RH7.2 based >> cluster distribution, and >> are coming up with a few issues we were hoping >> someone could shed some light >> on. The main problem seems to be an incompatibility >> between the SMP kernel >> and the cards we are using. The boxes we are using >> (Shuttle SS40s) have the >> Realtek cards installed - these work fine for the >> PXE network install, but >> after the we boot to the SMP kernel on the hard >> drive, the cards stop >> working (no packets go out, ifconfig looks good). >> The cards work just fine >> with the regular kernel on the same network. >> >> Has anyone else experienced hardware >> incompatibilities with the SMP kernel >> in the same distribution, and if so, how did you go >> about resolving them? >> >> Is it possible (and smarter) to compile a kernel >> that does work and then use >> this in the OSCAR install, or should I attempt to >> compile a driver that will >> work and somehow include this in the image that is >> sent to the nodes? >> >> Any thoughts, suggestions, or strategies would be >> appreciated, as we would >> like to use these built-in cards for this cluster. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> John >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> John A. Wolf >> Dept. of Neuroscience >> University of Pennsylvania >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (215) 898-0822 >> ------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------- >> This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >> We have stuff for geeks like you. >> http://thinkgeek.com/sf >> _______________________________________________ >> Oscar-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------------ John A. Wolf Dept. of Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania [EMAIL PROTECTED] (215) 898-0822 ------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Oh, it's good to be a geek. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
