On Jan 2, 2008 4:29 PM, Peter Ruprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anyone tried RHEL5 with a Sun Ultra-40 workstation? I just upgraded > one from RHEL4 but now the onboard network interfaces aren't being seen. > The U40 has an nvidia chipset and ethernet, and the forcedeth driver > seemed to work fine with it under RHEL4. > > Now, however, even lspci doesn't show any sign of ethernet interfaces. > I'm pretty confident that the hardware didn't suddenly stop working, as > the LAN is still enabled in the BIOS and the link light comes on when I > plug in the ethernet cable. I'm using the latest BIOS from Sun. > > I installed the latest kernel (2.6.18-53.1.4) via thumb drive, but that > seems not to have helped at all. Nor has a full "yum update", which I > could complete after adding a 3com PCI ethernet card. > > There's at least one existing bugzilla (420361) suggesting problems > with nvidia components and RHEL5, but in that case the issue seemed to > be with nv_sata. > > Any ideas what to look at next? I can post whatever logs or other info > might be useful. I'll open a bug if there doesn't seem to be some > obvious thing I'm missing. >
I am guessing it is an APIC issue as not seeing hardware on the PCI bus is awfully funny. The first thing to try is the brute force thing with the kernel options noapic nolapic and see if that works. After that.. it seems that people have had to use the Nvidia propietary driver for the 2.6.15+ kernels. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
