NetXtreme II BCM5708 and bridging (was: Packaging a module that overwrites kernel-provided files)

2008-06-18 Thread Florian Ernst
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:41:13AM -0430, Ernesto Hernandez-Novich wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 16:01 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) /etc/network/interfaces: post-up ethtool -K eth0 tx off

Re: NetXtreme II BCM5708 and bridging (was: Packaging a module that overwrites kernel-provided files)

2008-06-18 Thread Ernesto Hernandez-Novich
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:46 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: We were able to work around this issue by disabling the IPMI management portion of the firmware via a DOS tool as described on http://mywiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround when all other approaches had failed. This