2950 - Debian etch amd64 - Broadcom BCM5708

[J. Epperson]

On Thu, August 30, 2007 16:47, Chris Ferraro wrote:
> Running through the etch amd64 installer on a PowerEdge 2950, the 2
> network cards are detected as 'Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708
> Gigabit Ethernet' but the installer then fails on DHCP.  If I set static
> network info I still have failures, the apt setup fails for example
> because it can't find a mirror.  I can ping the machine's locally set IP
> address but it can't see anything else on the LAN.
>
> Help with the details of getting these Broadcom NICs working in Debian
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
I'm guessing you have only one of the cards connected.  Linux 2.6 kernels
on the 9th gen servers (and many other newer servers) famously reverses
eth0 and eth1 from the way the cards are labeled.  Matt Domsch/Robert
Hentosh's white paper on the matter is at:
http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v3.pdf

Try moving the network cable to the other card and see if that changes
your results.