Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-05-06 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 03.05.2013 um 09:01 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 5/2/2013 8:24 AM, Lukáš Zíta wrote: I can not think another way to handle this, so I will have to switch toa card from Intel. To those people who may wonder why/how others often end up with boxes full of brand new 'perfectly good'

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-05-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/2/2013 8:24 AM, Lukáš Zíta wrote: After some more tests, I have discovered, that those missing patches are part of BQL backport to 3.2 kernel (therefore their absence in upstream 3.2). In the end it turned out, that the NIC is buggy even with BQL disabled. Strange thing is, that the bug

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-05-02 Thread Lukáš Zíta
After some more tests, I have discovered, that those missing patches are part of BQL backport to 3.2 kernel (therefore their absence in upstream 3.2). In the end it turned out, that the NIC is buggy even with BQL disabled. Strange thing is, that the bug only appears on newer types of Dell

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-04-27 Thread Lukáš Zíta
Dne 26.4.2013 19:13, Lukas Zita napsal(a): Then I have noticed small patch in 3.2.43: tg3: fix length overflow in VPD firmware parsing, so I have compiled vanilla kernel and got the NIC working correctly. I will yet try to apply this patch on stock Wheezy kernel, but I believe that the problem

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-04-26 Thread Lukas Zita
to break the driver, but who knows. -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Wheezy-issue-with-broadcom-5720-nic-on-new-dell-PowerEdge-R720-tp2892237p2922675.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-18 Thread Casper Langemeijer
On 03/17/2013 05:12 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Which has alway been my understanding of it until so far. But I like to repeat from my first email: I tried the debian installer again, but even then it's not able to get a DHCP IP address using eth0. eth1 is working fine. This is after a cold boot.

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/18/2013 3:57 AM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: If I ifup both eth0 and eth1, ifconfig shows both interfaces. No difference between output for them. (except ip/mac of course) The counters get reset every few seconds for the broken eth0. Also: ethtool shows nothing out off the ordinary except

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-18 Thread Casper Langemeijer
On 03/18/2013 12:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/18/2013 3:57 AM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: If I ifup both eth0 and eth1, ifconfig shows both interfaces. No difference between output for them. (except ip/mac of course) The counters get reset every few seconds for the broken eth0. Also:

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-18 Thread Casper Langemeijer
On 03/18/2013 02:23 PM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: It gets even more weird: I had the NIC daughter card replaced, and the problem still exists. I think I will use the machine in production as it is now. Since I'm not using 4 ethernet ports, for me the issue is not blocking. I hope someday

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/18/2013 2:44 PM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: On 03/18/2013 02:23 PM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: It gets even more weird: I had the NIC daughter card replaced, and the problem still exists. I think I will use the machine in production as it is now. Since I'm not using 4 ethernet ports, for

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-17 Thread Casper Langemeijer
On 03/16/2013 07:19 PM, Brian wrote: From that moment on eth0 is not working anymore. I get these kernel messages: [ 1796.583881] tg3 :01:00.0: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting A search with tg3 transmit timed out resetting turns up some possibilities for you to investigate. Seriously?

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/17/2013 10:34 AM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: Which has alway been my understanding of it until so far. But I like to repeat from my first email: I tried the debian installer again, but even then it's not able to get a DHCP IP address using eth0. eth1 is working fine. This is after a cold

Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-16 Thread Casper Langemeijer
Hi List, I've run into an issue trying to install a new PowerEdge R720 server that arrived this week. It is equipped with a broadcom 5720 quad port network interface daughter card. I installed wheezy on it. No problems! The network interface works, and does not require any non-free firmware.

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Mar 2013 at 12:08:19 +0100, Casper Langemeijer wrote: [Snip] From that moment on eth0 is not working anymore. I get these kernel messages: [ 1796.583881] tg3 :01:00.0: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting A search with tg3 transmit timed out resetting turns up some