Debian Lenny on R710

[Ram_Sevak at Dell.com]

I installed the Debian Lenny on one of our R710s with PERC6/I cards. I
just manually added bnx2 firmware package through a USB key and did not
face any network issue post-reboot. 

The bnx2 firmware package is available at
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/all/firmware-bnx2/download

 

Thanks

Ram

 

 

From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Kish
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 4:24 AM
To: Cory Meyer; linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: Debian Lenny on R710

 

Cory,

 

I don't know this is applicable, however I have had to install
'firmware-bnx2' on a few of my Dell servers to enable NIC functionality.
I am pretty sure this is going to be in the 'non-free' repo.

 

Good luck.

Ryan

 

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From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Cory Meyer
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:03 PM
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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