1955 blades in 1855 rack won't enable NICs

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

Ingvar, 

This is most likely a compability issue with the PowerConnect switches the 1855 Chassie.  

I have asked a collegue in silver support to contact you, if you do not hear from him then call tech support.


Regards
Harald Jensås


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Ingvar Hagelund
> Sent: den 22 mars 2007 21:00
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: 1955 blades in 1855 rack won't enable NICs
> 
> Stacked two 1955 blades in a 1855 rack. Updated PSUs and 
> firmware. Blades boot up nice, but won't connect to the 
> switch. At all. This goes for both eth0 and eth1, so nic 
> ordering should not be a problem.
> 
> [root at storm ~]# uname -r
> 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
> 
> [root at storm ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise 
> Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
> 
> [root at storm ~]# dmesg | grep bnx
> Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.4.38 
> (February 10, 2006)
> bnx2: eth0: using MSI
> 
> [root at storm ~]# ip link set dev eth0 up && echo ok ok
> 
> [root at storm ~]# ethtool eth0
> Settings for eth0:
>         Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
>         Supported link modes:   1000baseT/Full 
>         Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
>         Advertised link modes:  1000baseT/Full 
>         Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
>         Speed: Unknown! (65535)
>         Duplex: Unknown! (255)
>         Port: FIBRE
>         PHYAD: 2
>         Transceiver: internal
>         Auto-negotiation: on
>         Supports Wake-on: d
>         Wake-on: d
>         Link detected: no
> 
> [root at storm ~]# ethtool eth1
> Settings for eth1:
>         Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
>         Supported link modes:   1000baseT/Full 
>         Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
>         Advertised link modes:  1000baseT/Full 
>         Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
>         Speed: Unknown! (65535)
>         Duplex: Unknown! (255)
>         Port: FIBRE
>         PHYAD: 2
>         Transceiver: internal
>         Auto-negotiation: on
>         Supports Wake-on: d
>         Wake-on: d
>         Link detected: no
> 
> Here is the switch status. The 1955 blades are port g9 and g10.
> 
> console> show interfaces status
>                                              Flow Link        
>   Back   Mdix
> Port     Type         Duplex  Speed Neg      ctrl State       
> Pressure Mode
> ........ ............ ......  ..... ........ .... ........... 
> ........ .......
> g1       1G-Fiber     Full    1000  Disabled Off  Up          
> Disabled Off    
> g2       1G-Fiber     Full    1000  Disabled Off  Up          
> Disabled Off    
> g3       1G-Fiber     Full    1000  Disabled Off  Up          
> Disabled Off    
> g4       1G-Fiber     Full    1000  Disabled Off  Up          
> Disabled Off    
> g5       1G-Fiber     Full    1000  Disabled Off  Up          
> Disabled Off    
> g6       1G-Fiber     Full    1000  Disabled Off  Up          
> Disabled Off    
> g7       1G-Fiber     Full    1000  Disabled Off  Up          
> Disabled Off    
> g8       1G-Fiber     Full    1000  Disabled Off  Up          
> Disabled Off    
> g9       1G-Fiber       --      --     --     --  Down        
>    --     --    
> g10      1G-Fiber       --      --     --     --  Down        
>    --     --    
> g11      1G-Copper    Full    1000  Enabled  Off  Up          
> Disabled Off    
> g12      1G-Copper    Full    100   Enabled  Off  Up          
> Disabled On     
> g13      1G-Copper      --      --     --     --  Down        
>    --     --    
> g14      1G-Copper      --      --     --     --  Down        
>    --     --    
> g15      1G-Copper      --      --     --     --  Down        
>    --     --    
> g16      1G-Copper      --      --     --     --  Down        
>    --     --    
> 
> (...)
> 
> Could switch firmware version be a problem?
> 
> console> show version
> SW version      1.0.0.24 ( date  23-Sep-2004 time  19:31:17 )
> Boot version    1.0.0.12 ( date  18-Aug-2004 time  13:54:42 )
> HW version    00.00.02
> 
> Ingvar
> 
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