Calvin Browne a écrit : > 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 think you can do this: echo megaraid_sas >> /etc/mkinitramfs/modules dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.15-your_specific_version maybe you can do the same for the bnx2, but i don't think it needs to be in the initramfs. If it doesn't load automatically at boot time, you can add it to /etc/modules I read in some forum that sometimes the network device enumeration order can change for some reasons, if it's your case, you cause /etc/iftab to assign a fixed name to your ifaces. I'll receive my 2950 to test all of this today, but i won't be able to test the ubuntu installer as i'm using FAI to install my servers. > > 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? I'm also interesting in answers about these question. Will these issues be fixed in Dapper? I guess that more and more people will have these issues because these Dell servers are quite popular and these issues are present on almost all new dell servers : 1950 /1955 /2950 and i guess all servers using megaraid_sas and bnx2. Maybe in dapper 6.06.2 ? > > TIA > > regards > > --Calvin > > -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server
