Hi All Just got delivery of two shiny Dell 2950's with 'PERC 5I INTG SAS RAID CARD' and Broadcom NIC's. Naturally, I want to install Dapper (who wouldn't).
Unfortunately - it seems you guys have problems supporting hardware that is not yet shipping at release time ;-) Anyways, here's what has happened so far: tried the amd64 server image - hangs at reboot, NIC's not recognised (apparently need bnx2 drivers/modules). ditto for the i386 server image image. desktop install works and reboots but then grub doesn't boot - seems the megaraid_sas driver needs to be included (see http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-August/026792.html) hints on how to do that would be appreciated. I'm busy downloading the latest firmware iso images from dell support, along with alternate-amd64 iso image to give that a bash and see how it goes. Now my actual questions: How could I include the bnx2 drivers? How would one go about creating an image for Dapper that would work on the 2950, and even get it contributed back to Dapper in some kind of (semi-)official way? Does the server project have a policy/mechanism for adding support for new hardware, particularly in the light of the LTS commitment? Would it help paying Canonical for any of the above? TIA regards --Calvin -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server
