Debian Lenny on R710

[Morten P.D. Stevens]

Hi Cory,

 

I think it´s a problem with the Broadcom proprietary firmware
 Debian 5.0 is
“free software” without proprietary firmware.

 

If you need a debian based linux distribution, just use ubuntu server.
Ubuntu server supports your broadcom nic.

 

Morten

 

From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Cory Meyer
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:03 AM
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Debian Lenny on R710

 

Has anyone else ran into issues with Linux on the R710.   I'm running single
2.0x4 core proc and the Broadcom 5709 NICx4.  I have no problems with my
Dell 2950 with the Broadcom 5708 NICs. 

The error that dmesg shows when loading the bnx2 driver is: 
    Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.7.5 (April 29,
2008)
   bnx2 0000:01:00.0 Cannot find PCI device base address, aborting


I'm assuming that this something PCI related since the PERC6/i controller
isn't being recognized either.  To get around this I tried the basic
combination of kernel arguments pci=noacpi, acpi=noirq, pnpacpi=off, noapic
and nolapic with no change.

Any ideas?   I'm currently running Debian Lenny with the 2.6.26-2-amd64
kernel. 

Thanks,

Cory

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