Debian on a PowerEdge 1950

[Greg Dickie]

This has been posted before. For the PERC5 you need megaraid_sas, for
the NICS you need bnx2. This are both in later 2.6 kernels, not sure
where they first showed up......


Greg

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 11:37 +1000, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
> I have just recently been handed a PowerEdge 1950, one of the shiney and 
>   new.
> We would prefer to have Debian running on this box as that is our 
> internal SOE base OS, however, I have run into some issues getting it 
> installed, let alone running.
> I have not been able to find any documentation which tells me which 
> kernel modules support the PERC/5 RAID card or the Broadcom NetEtreme 
> NIC, or even really, which kernel *version* supports these devices.
> 
> Anyone got any hints?
> 
> 
> regards,