On 12/26/2011 5:18 AM, Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a problem with my net6501 when trying to install CentOS (RHEL) > Linux, both with the latest version (6.2) and the latest previous release > (5.7) using PXE booting to bootstrap the install. > > In essence, at some point during the install (the exact time varies and is > unrelated to initial interface activation by the installer) the network > interface will just hang. The LED is still lit, but the light doesn't > modulate with traffic on the line. Pinging from the net6501 as well as the > LAN it is connected to results in an error as if the network cable has been > pulled. The network settings on the net6501 look fine, but the interface > shows errors registered when running ifconfig. > > - to isolate issues with specific interfaces I have tried running the install > from all ethernet ports on the net6501 without a change in behavior > > - to make sure this is not a problem with broken interface speed negotiation > I have set the switch port it is connecting to to a fixed 100M/full duplex > value and disabled auto-negotiation. The switch is a HP ProCurve 2810-24G. > > - to exclude specific switch interoperability issues I even tried with an > intermediary switch, an old Cisco 2850. > > - as mentioned above, I tried two different CentOS versions > > - with a bit of fiddling I managed to upgrade to the lastest BIOS release, > 1.41a, which fixed a serial port output display issue for me but my network > interface problem remained > > Can anyone suggest a solution or other things to try?
http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2011-October/017822.html Your NIC lights are off because the interfaces are off due to a kernel bug. It seems fixed in a recent Fedora kernel, but none of the RHEL (CentOS) ones. > > Thanks! > > jens > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech --Kyle _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
