2950 - Debian etch amd64 - Broadcom BCM5708

[Fabrice LORRAIN]

J. Epperson a écrit :
> 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.
> 

Desactivating the 2nd card in the bios for the install is another way of
bypassing this problem.

@+,
	Fab