Now I am confused. I reinstalled the whole lot with RedHat 9 as this is supposedly supported, and still the old nodes work perfectly well. The newer ones still have errors about the network cards.
In the meantime I have a reply from "supermicro": <----- The linux distribution like RH ES 3.0 and FC 2 and 3 on a IDE harddrive installation should be no problem, please use the LAN driver from below link: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/LAN/Intel/PRO_v8.4/PRO1000/LINUX/ and make sure to have latest bios installed R1.0C http://www.supermicro.com/support/bios/ <----- So I reinstall RH ES 3. I read the readme, and built the rpm package, included this when I built the image and tried installing with that. Still no joy. It is installed, but does nothing. I put the tar file on a floppy, installed this on one of the nodes, and followed instructions 1-4 in the readme, but cannot install. Anybody have any clues? I'm guessing this is no longer an oscar problem. Thanks. Quoting Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey Martin: > > A quick way to test whether the network card is supported is to boot off > the first CD. Boot into rescue mode (linux rescue) and it should give > you the option to start up the network - if it works, then you know it is > supported. > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Fri 03/06/2005 12:14 AM > To: Bernard Li > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Oscar installation with supermicro X5DPA-GG > motherboard > > > > > I have asked supermicro if the incompatibility is just a network card > problem. As I say, the distribution seems to install OK, and the machines > appear to be fine once installed in all aspects, apart from the > networking. > > I have also asked them if their motherboards support Fedora Core 2 or 3, > but > as their site doesn't mention these, so I am guessing they do not. > > PS. I have changed the subject, in case anyone else has this problem with > this motherboard. > > Thanks again for your help. > > > Quoting Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Martin: > > > > Unfortunately, OSCAR currently only supports one distribution at a time > - > > so either you use Red Hat Linux 9 on all the nodes, or Red Hat > Enterprise > > Linux 3. > > > > I guess you have 2 choices: > > > > 1) Use network cards which are compatible with RHEL3 > > 2) Use Red Hat Linux 9 > > > > If you are going to go back to Red Hat Linux 9, you may be better off > > using a newer distribution like Fedora Core 2 or 3, since we will no > > longer be supporting Red Hat Linux 9 for our next release. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bernard > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thu 02/06/2005 5:43 AM > > To: Bernard Li > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Oscar installation with gigabit ethernet > > controllers > > > > > > > > > > Well, I found out the problem. The SuperMicro X5DPA-GG is not > compatible > > with RedHat Linux Enterprise v3. > > > > http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/E7501Compatibility.cfm > > > > So I guess I have to use RedHat 9.0 on these nodes instead. > > > > Would there be any problem if I use one OS (RH Enterprise 3) on one set > > of > > nodes and another OS (RH 9) on the newer ones? Or should the cluster > run > > the same OS on all nodes? > > > > Thanks again. > > > > Martin Bates > > > > Quoting Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > What does /etc/modules.conf look like on the 2 types of nodes? > > > SystemConfigurator should be able to figure out that the new nodes > need > > > the module but not the old nodes. Therefore I'm not sure why it > isn't > > > working. > > > > > > However, one solution is to create different images for different > > nodes, > > > but it's best that you use one image to make things simplier (if you > > > can). > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Bernard > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:09 > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: [Oscar-users] Oscar installation with gigabit > > > > ethernet controllers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am installing Oscar on a cluster made up of older machines > > > > (with 100Mbit > > > > ethernet cards) and then some newer machines with Supermicro > X5DPA-GG > > > > motherboards, which have dual intel82541 gigabit ethernet cards. > > > > > > > > The installation runs OK on the newer machines, but when it comes > to > > > > testing, I get the error that the network is unreachable. Also if I > > > > physically log on to the nodes, I cannot ssh back to the host > > > > or to other > > > > nodes. > > > > > > > > I understand that this is probably just a problem starting > > > > the network cards > > > > and I need to alias the ethernet controllers in the > > > > /etc/modules.conf as > > > > > > > > alias eth0 e1000 > > > > alias eth1 e1000 > > > > > > > > for these nodes only. > > > > > > > > What is the best way to do this? Do I need to do two > > > > installs, one for the > > > > older nodes, then one for the newer ones? > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. > > > > Introducing Yahoo! 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